Islamic Swords And Swordsmiths
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Islamic Swords And Swordsmiths
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Author : Ünsal Yücel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Islamic Swords And Swordsmiths written by Ünsal Yücel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Islamic swords categories.
Medieval Islamic Swords And Swordmaking Kindi S Treatise On Swords And Their Kinds
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Author : Robert G. Hoyland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Medieval Islamic Swords And Swordmaking Kindi S Treatise On Swords And Their Kinds written by Robert G. Hoyland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Architecture categories.
One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises. Tradition tended to be handed down by example and by word of mouth, and apprenticeships could last for decades. Fortunately, however, occasional treatises do exist. The treatise "On swords and their kinds" was written by the 9th century Muslim philosopher Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi. This work was commissioned by a powerful patron of scholarship, the Abbasid caliph Mu'tasim, and the content of the treatise presumably reflects the ruler's general interest in his army and its equipment, and his specific interest in the technical aspects of sword production. In this work, Kindi discusses the difference between iron and steel, distinguishes different qualities of sword blade, and different centres of swordsmithing. He refers to the Indian Ocean trade in steel ingots and to the distinctive character of European swords of the period. He includes technical terms used by the makers, and distinguishes swords by their physical features - form, measurements, weight, watered pattern, sculptured details, or inlaid ornaments. This publication includes the text and a translation of Kindi's treatise, and a detailed commentary on the work. The volume also includes a translation of Friedrich Schwarzlose's work on swords, which is based on the hundreds of references to swords in early Arabic poetry. Written in German, this extraordinary compendium of information was first published some 120 years ago; this volume makes it available again, and for the first time in English.
On Islamic Swords
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Author : A. Rahman Zaky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
On Islamic Swords written by A. Rahman Zaky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with categories.
Sword And Scimitar
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Author : Raymond Ibrahim
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-08-28
Sword And Scimitar written by Raymond Ibrahim and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-28 with History categories.
A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities The West and Islam -- the sword and scimitar -- have clashed since the mid-seventh century, when, according to Muslim tradition, the Roman emperor rejected Prophet Muhammad's order to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam, unleashing a centuries-long jihad on Christendom. Sword and Scimitar chronicles the decisive battles that arose from this ages-old Islamic jihad, beginning with the first major Islamic attack on Christian land in 636, through the Muslim occupation of nearly three-quarters of Christendom which prompted the Crusades, followed by renewed Muslim conquests by Turks and Tatars, to the European colonization of the Muslim world in the 1800s, when Islam largely went on the retreat -- until its reemergence in recent times. Using original sources in Arabic and Greek, preeminent historian Raymond Ibrahim describes each battle in vivid detail and explains how these wars and the larger historical currents of the age reflect the cultural fault lines between Islam and the West. The majority of these landmark battles -- including the battles of Yarmuk, Tours, Manzikert, the sieges at Constantinople and Vienna, and the crusades in Syria and Spain--are now forgotten or considered inconsequential. Yet today, as the West faces a resurgence of this enduring Islamic jihad, Sword and Scimitar provides the needed historical context to understand the current relationship between the West and the Islamic world -- and why the Islamic State is merely the latest chapter of an old history.
The Arms And Armour Of Arabia In The 18th 19th And 20th Centuries
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Author : Robert Elgood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Arms And Armour Of Arabia In The 18th 19th And 20th Centuries written by Robert Elgood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
In the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, the Arab nomads who inhabited a great stretch of the Near East from Aleppo in northern Syria to the southern shores of the Arabian peninsula continued a way of life virtually unchanged from the time of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. Wars and raids were carried out by tribesmen armed like their ancestors with sword, mace and lance. Firearms came slowly to the Bedouin, and multishot weapons were very rare until the end of the 19th century.
Islamic Swords In The Medieval Middle East
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Author : A. Rahman Zaky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Islamic Swords In The Medieval Middle East written by A. Rahman Zaky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with categories.
Mecca And Eden
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Author : Brannon Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2006-07
Mecca And Eden written by Brannon Wheeler and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07 with History categories.
Nineteenth-century philologist and Biblical critic William Robertson Smith famously concluded that the sacred status of holy places derives not from their intrinsic nature but from their social character. Building upon this insight, Mecca and Eden uses Islamic exegetical and legal texts to analyze the rituals and objects associated with the sanctuary at Mecca. Integrating Islamic examples into the comparative study of religion, Brannon Wheeler shows how the treatment of rituals, relics, and territory is related to the more general mythological depiction of the origins of Islamic civilization. Along the way, Wheeler considers the contrast between Mecca and Eden in Muslim rituals, the dispersal and collection of relics of the prophet Muhammad, their relationship to the sanctuary at Mecca, and long tombs associated with the gigantic size of certain prophets mentioned in the Quran. Mecca and Eden succeeds, as few books have done, in making Islamic sources available to the broader study of religion.
Islamic Swords In Middle Ages
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Author : ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Zakī
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Islamic Swords In Middle Ages written by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Zakī and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Islamic swords categories.
Al Kindi On Swords
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Author : James (Keeper of Eastern Art Allan
language : en
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al-Kindi's letter al-Suyuf wa 'ajnasuha, Swords and their Types, dates from the early 9th century AD. An Arabic edition was published in 1952 but there is no English translation. This volume contains an Introduction on early Islamic swords, Facsimiles of the two known manuscripts, an English translation, and a detailed commentary.
Weapons Of The Islamic World
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 199?
Weapons Of The Islamic World written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 199? with Islamic weapons categories.