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Originally Posted by A.alnakkas
i dont recall anything in my faith about using the left hand for killing. but yes, the right hand is for eating, hand shaking and anything thats demands interaction between other people (for example, its prefered if i hand you an item with my right hand rather then the left). the left hand is not used for human interactions (cant find a better word) because its used for cleaning the body or touching anything dirty.
Beautiful picture, looks like a picture i saw long time ago or maybe its the same one... as far as i know, the guy with the "omani" janbiya seems to be a sharif.
btw, about the name of the "wahabite" janbiya, bedouin friends of mine call iy simply.. janbiya, though i reckon that the Saudi source is more historically correct.
i have found such janbiya but its shorter then the usual, the scabbard is of good quality and the blade is too clean to be old but it is a janbiya of decent quality, so is it common to find shorter examples? will try to provide pictures whenever am free 
to atlantia ; the diet of pre-modernisation arabia wasnt as fattening as now, hehe.
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The pic in question appears in Elgood's Arms and Armour of Arabia, and the caption with it reads:
"The Sharif Yahya flanked by his gun-holding slave and two lesser Sharifs in long dark dress. Yahya is the son of Sharif Ahmed whose father was the famous Grand Sharif Abd al-Muttalib deceased in 1886."
I am not sure what one should apply as the length of a "generation" but one could guess I suppose that this pic was taken around 1930ish.
Also here are a couple more pics of Long Jambiya being worn. These pics were taken in the 1980s.