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Old 21st December 2006, 01:30 AM   #6
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I'm not surprised that it is called a khanjar in the modern vernacular, after all it's a standard Arabic term. The term "koummiya" (sorry, I left out an "m" in my last post) is typically encountered in arms literature of the last century, Charles Buttin used it in his catalogs, an anternate spelling "koummya" is used by Alain Jacob in his LES ARMES BLANCHES DU MONDE ISLAMIQUE, and it is found in numerous books by 19th cent. travellers and explorers in the Maghreb.
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