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Prior to the rise of Islam in the 630s, the settled communities in the Arabian peninsula developed into distinctive civilizations, and are limited to archaeological evidence. Accounts written outside of Arabia and Arab oral traditions were later recorded by Islamic scholars. Among the most prominent
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In the article "Introduction to the Study of Islamic Arms and Armour", A. Rahman Zaky says the saif is "n Arab sword, a rather broad blade and sometimes with a peculiarly hooked pommel. The size varies greatly. It is found in most countries in which the Arabs have lived, and each has its own
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Furusiyya covers four disciplines: the tactics of attack and withdrawal (al-karr wa-l-farr); archery; jousts with spears; duels with swords. Only the Muslim conquerors and the knights of the faith have fully mastered these four
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During the Mamluk period the saber seems to have been the preferred weapon of the warrior elite but the most finely decorated edged weapons were swords. Swords were used in the most important ceremonial events in the
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ordered in 629 a raid on the city to capture them. In the case of other captured weapons we can be less sure about where they were produced. This is true of the weapons taken from the Jewish tribe known as the
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In the later years of the Arab sword, of the seven listed places by Al-Kindi where it was manufactured, four remained by the later half of the 13th century. With Khorasan and Damascus razed by the
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which arose around 3000 BC and lasted to about 300 AD. Additionally, from the beginning of the first millennium BC, Southern Arabia was the home to a number of kingdoms such as the
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from 300BC. The Arabs of the peninsula, thus, had their own local system of warfare, that was not of big armies, but of small battles and skirmishes among tribes.
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which arose around the end of the fourth millennium BC and lasted to about 600 AD and the
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Al-Kindi lists seven places from which Arab swords were forged. Starting with the best;
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ed. Nizam al-Din al-Fatih, Madinah al Munawara: Maktaba Dar al-Turath, 1990.
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and the coastal areas of Eastern Arabia were controlled by the Iranian
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before the 7th century. Little is known about this weapon besides what
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variety. Early Arab chroniclers used to mention two kinds of swords:
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The Book of Contemplation: Islam and the Crusades (Penguin Classics)
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During the early Islamic years, the Arabs sheathed their weapons in
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is an Arab word for swords in general, not a certain type. The term
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An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades
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A Preliminary Bibliography of Medieval Arabic Military Literature
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memoir as evidence, that when Usama was being attacked by a
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The production of the Arab sword has four distinct periods:
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Sword of Boabdil — hispano-moorish sword of the XV-XVI c.
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where the ruler was "girded" with the "Bedouin sword"
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Index


Caliph Umar
Arabic
Arabia
Al-Kindi
xiphos
Pre-Islamic
Early Islamic
Islamic Golden Age
Dilmun
Thamud
Sabaeans
Parthians
Sassanians
Mu'tah
Muhammad
Banu Qaynuqa
Ibn Ishaq
sabers
double-edged swords

Mongols
Byzantium
Fourth Crusade
Ottomans
scimitar
shamshir
kilij
Sri Lanka
Kedah

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