Arabic script on blade

Jim McDougall · 19th March 2019, 11:14 PM

This is thuluth script which was placed on Sudanese weapons during the rule of the Caliph in the Mahdiyya post 1885, and pre Omdurman (1898). These inscriptions were acid etched invocations and Quranic phrases which were placed in repetition in most cases on various tribal edged weapons. There were countless examples of these weapons not only from the field at Omdurman, but throughout these areas in these times.

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19th March 2019, 11:14 PM	#2
Jim McDougall Arms Historian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Route 66 Posts: 10,191	This is thuluth script which was placed on Sudanese weapons during the rule of the Caliph in the Mahdiyya post 1885, and pre Omdurman (1898). These inscriptions were acid etched invocations and Quranic phrases which were placed in repetition in most cases on various tribal edged weapons. There were countless examples of these weapons not only from the field at Omdurman, but throughout these areas in these times.