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Old 13th July 2017, 10:04 AM   #27
Ibrahiim al Balooshi
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Originally Posted by estcrh
Ibrahimm, that image also contains individual descriptions.




Describing items as "Indo-Persian" is no different than when you have maces from Europe and you say "European" maces. Indo-Persian is just a way to group items together, it is an internet tag word that is picked up by search engines. It is very helpful when searching online.

Salaams estcrh, I don't have an axe to grind with Maces in fact its an excellent thread... I also don't want to get wound up in the wording used by the web although it can be seen that Indo/ Persian rather haphazardly groups a huge selection of everything weapon wise in one bag.
Was it not one of the aims of this thread to separate the Maces so that they could be further identified and to expand on the subject it was mentioned at #1 that Indian weapons were also in the conundrum...? Which indeed by definition of Indo/ Persian they certainly are.

Thus, I think an appraisal of each style would have been the way forward.

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Ibrahiim al Balooshi.
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