The Habaabi Khanjar/Jambia; FromThe Asir.

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by Rashka Vatnik

Interesting, thanks! I've been always thinking that this knid of daggers comes from Eastern Arabia, where Yemen borders with Oman, however it appears it comes from the West of peninsula!

Salaams Rashka Vatnik, Yes and no. #26 refers. The origin of species comes from Oman and is called the al Wusta but it somehow got transported in...on the sea route to Zanzibar where it took root in the mid 19th C....becoming a style adopted by the famous Flower Tribe of Asir... and it is made there . In Oman there is still the origin of species we call the Al Wusta khanjar ....and we even have a name for the exported item(THAT IS THE ITEM COPIED BY ABHA ARTESANS) ... Habaabi ..meaning of Abha the regional city in the Asir...see map. Imported by sea from Sur...to Jazzan...mid 19th C....and adopted there.


see also http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...=omani+khanjar

Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.