A type of early Arabic horse breed or designation, sometimes referenced in medieval texts about equestrian knowledge.
From Arabic equestrian terminology; the word reflects the sophisticated Arabic horse breeding cultures that developed in the Arabian Peninsula and Levantine regions.
Medieval Arabs kept such detailed genealogies of their horses that some bloodlines can be traced back over 1,500 years—akhlame represents one of the sophisticated classification systems they developed!
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