Dagger (Jambiya) with Scabbard

hilt and scabbard, Arabian, Jedda; blade, Iranian or Turkish

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This Arab dagger was worn by Sharif Husayn ibn 'Ali, amir of Mecca (r. 908–16) and king of the Hejaz (r. 1916–24), and then by his son, Faisal, briefly king of Syria (1920) and subsequently king of Iraq (r. 1921–33). The pierced blade is a late version of an Ottoman Turkish type of the sixteenth century. The gold-damascened inscriptions include a phrase referring to the dagger: “I admire, as the [great] art of the Arabs, the gilded dagger.”

Dagger (Jambiya) with Scabbard, Steel, ivory, wood, silver, gold, rubies, emeralds, hilt and scabbard, Arabian, Jedda; blade, Iranian or Turkish

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Dagger (Jambiya) with Scabbard, Steel, ivory, wood, silver, gold, rubies, emeralds, hilt and scabbard, Arabian, Jedda; blade, Iranian or Turkish
Dagger (Jambiya) with Scabbard, Steel, ivory, wood, silver, gold, rubies, emeralds, hilt and scabbard, Arabian, Jedda; blade, Iranian or Turkish
Dagger (Jambiya) with Scabbard, Steel, ivory, wood, silver, gold, rubies, emeralds, hilt and scabbard, Arabian, Jedda; blade, Iranian or Turkish
Dagger (Jambiya) with Scabbard, Steel, ivory, wood, silver, gold, rubies, emeralds, hilt and scabbard, Arabian, Jedda; blade, Iranian or Turkish
Dagger (Jambiya) with Scabbard, Steel, ivory, wood, silver, gold, rubies, emeralds, hilt and scabbard, Arabian, Jedda; blade, Iranian or Turkish
Dagger (Jambiya) with Scabbard, Steel, ivory, wood, silver, gold, rubies, emeralds, hilt and scabbard, Arabian, Jedda; blade, Iranian or Turkish
Dagger (Jambiya) with Scabbard, Steel, ivory, wood, silver, gold, rubies, emeralds, hilt and scabbard, Arabian, Jedda; blade, Iranian or Turkish

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