Question for Jambiya & Khanjar lovers

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Originally Posted by Ibrahiim al Balooshi

I note that in India the Khanjar is mentioned in the Metmuseum notes as having appeared sometime in the 16th Century...but in India.

Ibrahiim, in the Met notes were they discussing the jambiya that is sometimes referred to as "khanjar" or the recurved dagger that is also known as "khanjar", I know that the Met has a problem with their descriptions. Most jambiya are labled as such but one or more are described as khanjar, then there is the recurved dagger that is also labeled as khanjar.

Here are the met searches for khanjar and jambiya.

Khanjar
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...der=asc&page=1

Jambiya
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...der=asc&page=1

Below is one example, this jambiya is listed as a "khanjar" in the met search for khanjar and the title description says it is a khanjar but in the more detailed description it is described as a "jambiya".

This particular jambiya has been discussed here before, I just noticed that some new information has been added to its description.

A traditional jambiya Arab dagger, this example commemorates a Turk’s pilgrimage to Mecca. Inscriptions on the scabbard give the name of the owner and the city of manufacture, Medina, another pilgrimage site, while those on the blade include verses of poetry and the name of the maker, Izzet. The storage case, made in Turkey, bears the calligraphic cipher (tugra) of the Ottoman sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876–1909).