Investigating the Type of Weaponry Application in Fakhr-e-Razi’s Settiny (Introducing Unknown Military Lexicon and Analyzing it from a Military Sciences Perspective)

Military sciences and weaponry are discussed about in different Persian texts and recognizing and introducing these texts is necessary in order to utilize them in future works for extracting military lexicon and expressions. The Compendium of Knowledge, written in 16 chapters, is Emam Fakh-e-Razi’s most important Persian work in one chapter of which unknown weaponry and their construction method and application is discussed about. This study asks: what military lexicon and expressions are used in Settiny and to what degree it is important to address them? Military lexicon, expressions, and syntax used in this book are introduced, the foregoing military aspects are discussed about, and the mentioned military weaponry, strategies and solutions are studied and analyzed. The method of this study is a qualitative case study on Settiny complemented by a comparative study of other encyclopedias. The importance of this subject is that it shows encyclopedias as neglected sources of military lexicon and expressions, such that unknown military terms, like hedgehog, are used in Settiny which have not been recorded in any other general or specialized encyclopedias. Moreover, the range and type of these weaponries application are clarified in this encyclopedia. The pattern of constructing this term can be of assistance for wordage purposes in different areas such as military subjects.