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Rivkin · 13th July 2005, 05:13 PM

The manual David Nicolle translated I think is from 1412 (it's like totally the most famous one

). It's in turkish, but comes from circassian epoch.
While XIX century events and muhajars (circassian migrants) is a little bit different story,
The problem is that no one depicts mamluks of traditional period - pre 1517 with khanjars, so it's hard to understand what their khanjars actually were. It's strange that you can see mamluk mace, bow, multitudes of swords, but not khanjars.

13th July 2005, 05:13 PM	#3
Rivkin Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 655	The manual David Nicolle translated I think is from 1412 (it's like totally the most famous one ). It's in turkish, but comes from circassian epoch. While XIX century events and muhajars (circassian migrants) is a little bit different story, The problem is that no one depicts mamluks of traditional period - pre 1517 with khanjars, so it's hard to understand what their khanjars actually were. It's strange that you can see mamluk mace, bow, multitudes of swords, but not khanjars.