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    Firearms of the Islamic world in the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait / Robert Elgood.

    By: Elgood, RobertContributor(s): Tareq Rajab Museum (Kuwait)Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 1995Description: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 185043963X; 9781850439639Other title: Firearms of the Islamic world [Spine title]Subject(s): Tareq Rajab Museum (Kuwait) | Tareq Rajab Museum | Tareq Rajab Museum (Kuwait) | Firearms -- Islamic countries -- History | Islamic weapons -- History | Firearms -- Private collections -- Kuwait | Middle East | Firearms | Firearms -- Private collections | Islamic weapons | Islamic countries | Kuwait | Vuurwapens | Tareq Rajab Museum | Feuerwaffe | Geschichte | Islam | Feuerwaffe | Geschichte | Islam | Arabian PeninsulaGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 739.7/4/0917671 LOC classification: TS533.4.I74 | E43 1995Other classification: 89.87 | 21.91 | EH 5335 | NK 7005
    Contents:
    Foreword / Howard L. Blackmore -- Naft and Moorish Spain -- The Mamluks and their successors in Egypt -- The Ottomans -- The Maghrib: Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia -- The Sudan -- Arabia -- The Balkans in the 18th and 19th centuries -- The Caucasus and Daghestan -- Northern Syria and Iraq -- Iran, Afghanistan and the Khanates -- The Indian Sub-Continent -- India in the 18th and 19th centuries -- Ceylon and South-East Asia -- Catalogue of the guns and pistols in the Tareq Rajab Museum.
    Action note: This title retained by Wesleyan University Library on behalf of the Eastern Academic Scholars Trust (EAST) print archive Summary: The earliest surviving document referring to the use of gunpowder is Chinese and dates from AD 1044. The formula for gunpowder was passed through India and Persia to the Arabs and its first use in firearms in Europe is reported at an Arab siege in Spain in 1324. The history of firearms in Europe and North America is well documented, but their development in the Islamic world has been neglected. This is the first comprehensive study of a complex subject, written by one of the world's leading authorities.Summary: Robert Elgood uses the superb collection of firearms in the Tareq Rajab Museum in Kuwait - the most important collection of its kind in the Arab world - to explore the subject. The collection ranges from Morocco to India, from Spain to Central Asia, taking in almost every country in between. The book traces the diffusion of locally-made firearms across the Near and Middle East from the fourteenth century until the late nineteenth century when traditional craftsmanship largely ceased in the face of Western mass-production.Summary: Drawing on detailed scholarly research, and the entertaining accounts of contemporary travellers, the author examines surviving weapons, their place of manufacture and mode of decoration, and sets them in their historical and social context.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index.

    Foreword / Howard L. Blackmore -- 1. Naft and Moorish Spain -- 2. The Mamluks and their successors in Egypt -- 3. The Ottomans -- 4. The Maghrib: Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia -- 5. The Sudan -- 6. Arabia -- 7. The Balkans in the 18th and 19th centuries -- 8. The Caucasus and Daghestan -- 9. Northern Syria and Iraq -- 10. Iran, Afghanistan and the Khanates -- 11. The Indian Sub-Continent -- 12. India in the 18th and 19th centuries -- 13. Ceylon and South-East Asia -- Catalogue of the guns and pistols in the Tareq Rajab Museum.

    The earliest surviving document referring to the use of gunpowder is Chinese and dates from AD 1044. The formula for gunpowder was passed through India and Persia to the Arabs and its first use in firearms in Europe is reported at an Arab siege in Spain in 1324. The history of firearms in Europe and North America is well documented, but their development in the Islamic world has been neglected. This is the first comprehensive study of a complex subject, written by one of the world's leading authorities.

    Robert Elgood uses the superb collection of firearms in the Tareq Rajab Museum in Kuwait - the most important collection of its kind in the Arab world - to explore the subject. The collection ranges from Morocco to India, from Spain to Central Asia, taking in almost every country in between. The book traces the diffusion of locally-made firearms across the Near and Middle East from the fourteenth century until the late nineteenth century when traditional craftsmanship largely ceased in the face of Western mass-production.

    Drawing on detailed scholarly research, and the entertaining accounts of contemporary travellers, the author examines surviving weapons, their place of manufacture and mode of decoration, and sets them in their historical and social context.

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