Unusual Balkan "Yataghan" for Comments

[Dom]

Originally Posted by TVV

can you please help translate?

Hi Teodor
nice initiative to have cleaned the blade ,
because on ricasso we might read the name of the blacksmith
ALLAH
MOHAMED
AMAL ZARIF (?) either MADE BY ZARIF (reading under reserve)
ALI HASSAN
several comments
- part of the mentions are religious, used in the sense of talismanic; Allah, Mohamed
and might be Ali, Hassan, the serial seems logic;
God, then his Prophet, the Prophet's son, the Prophet's grandson, those last two very revered by the Shiite
- the owner for this yatagan was Muslim, absolutly, but may be Shiite obedience
- the blacksmith is might be from Armenian community, if what we read as name is correct,
that's it for today
all the best

à +

Dom