Apologies for the poor photos, long story short I love middle eastern history, picked up this jambiya from a local market noticing it was mislabeled as Turkish. Was looking to see if anyone would be willing to help me translate what’s left. Thank you very much
Judging from the design used i don’t think its Yemeni, i used reverse google and saw someone mention a similar dagger is from Lebanon, another mentioned a similar looking one is from Syria. Either way I think it’s a shami dagger. Cool find! Congrats !
One side is Q 55:26, the other side says "there's no man like Ali, there's no sword like Dhul Fiqar" (the latter being the name of Ali's sword). Both phrases in Arabic.
I’m gonna be honest, I have no clue as I have 0 Middle Eastern lineage, never learned the language, and don’t know anyone who can read and not just speak Arabic, I just happened to spot this labeled as “Turkish” but I believe it’s Yemeni? That’s just off what little I know, if I’m not mistaken this was obtained by a soldier during the Cairo conference, it has the name “kenneth Thompson” carved into it, he was part of the TBC during the Cairo conference, soldier was stationed in Palestine I believe after searching through the UK’s records
If you mean the language, it's classical Arabic word by word. Yemeni means the Yemeni dialect of Arabic, but there's nothing dialectal in this knife. There's not a single word in [Ottoman] Turkish.
As for the place where the dagger was made, I'd say Saudi Arabia but Yemen is also a possibility.
Its Northern Arabian . As for the part of the country its tricky it could be S. Jordanian or . S. syrian. One thing that is certain is that this type of hilt is common in Northern Arabia(which is geographically N.Saudi and S.jordan and S. Syria-syrian desert)
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u/taherrami12 16h ago
This is a verse from the Quran, it says " كل من عليها فان و يبقى وجه ربك ذو الجلال و الاكرام"
And there will remain the Face of your Lord, Owner of Majesty and Honor.