Wahabite dagger ? or janbiyya?

kahnjar1 · 3rd July 2025, 09:41 PM

Wahabite is a term used by collectors and is not correct terminology for these daggers/knives. They are DHARIA (or Sabiki, Sabak et al). A book published by the King Faisal Foundation, Riyadh in 1991 (I have a copy) clearly shows these as Dharia.
If you go to gp's Post #7 above (last para) the dirivation of the term is clearly explained.
Some pics attached of Dharia I used to own.
Also more info here http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=17574 including hilt and blade style names.
Stu

3rd July 2025, 09:41 PM	#9
kahnjar1 Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND Posts: 2,810	>NOT WAHABITE but Dharia Wahabite is a term used by collectors and is not correct terminology for these daggers/knives. They are DHARIA (or Sabiki, Sabak et al). A book published by the King Faisal Foundation, Riyadh in 1991 (I have a copy) clearly shows these as Dharia. If you go to gp's Post #7 above (last para) the dirivation of the term is clearly explained. Some pics attached of Dharia I used to own. Also more info here http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=17574 including hilt and blade style names. Stu Attached Images Last edited by kahnjar1; 3rd July 2025 at 11:12 PM.

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