[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by kahnjar1

Hi again Chregu,
I would like you to refer to this previous thread and go to the last post, where the term "habaabi" is discussed http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...hlight=habaabi
Rather than being an area, it is, according to Ibrahiim's response, a convenient term used by Omanis to describe non Omani jambiya.
Ibrahiim has described your #2 as this. It certainly seems to be Saudia but as to actual area, I can not help.
Stu

Salaams kahnjar1~ I think it is not so much a convenient term but rather a fairly accurate link to the area it has developed in...since it is from an area .. Abha the capital of the Asiir region ~ the weapon perhaps mispronounced Habaabi... of the Abha area (Abhaabi?) ... once in Yemen but now since the 1920s in Saudia..and influenced directly by the Muscat sea traded Muscat Khanjar.
Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.