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"Zulfiqar" and its phonetic variations has come into use as given name, as with former Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. [citation needed] In Iran, the name of the sword has been used as an eponym in military contexts; thus, Reza Shah Pahlavi renamed the military order Portrait of the Commander of Faithful to Order of Zolfaghar in ...
Ain-i Akbari weaponry. Mughal weapons significantly evolved during the ruling periods of its various rulers. During its conquests throughout the centuries, the military of the Mughal Empire used a variety of weapons including swords, bows and arrows, horses, camels, elephants, some of the world's largest cannons, muskets and flintlock blunderbusses.
A military order of Imperial Persia and Iran was named after Zulfiqar, the two-pointed sword of Ali, the son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.It was founded as the Decoration of the Commander of the Faithful by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar in 1856, to commemorate the recapture of Herat.
Sword of Osman; S. Scimitar; Shamshir; ... Yatagan; Z. Zulfiqar This page was last edited on 28 November 2024, at 22:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
A macuahuitl ([maːˈkʷawit͡ɬ]) is a weapon, a wooden sword with several embedded obsidian blades. The name is derived from the Nahuatl language and means "hand-wood". [ 2 ] Its sides are embedded with prismatic blades traditionally made from obsidian , which is capable of producing an edge sharper than high quality steel razor blades.
Zulfiqar (also Zulfikar and other Romanisations) or Dhu al-Fiqar was the legendary sword of the Islamic leader Ali. Zulfiqar may also refer to: Weapon
During the 16th and 17th centuries, Ottoman war flags often depicted the bifurcated Zulfiqar sword, often misinterpreted in Western literature as showing a pair of scissors. [ 2 ] The crescent symbol appears in flags attributed to Tunis from as early as the 14th century ( Libro de conoscimiento ), long before Tunis fell under Ottoman rule in 1574.
English: Depiction of a Shi'ite "Zulfiqar" talisman. Zulfiqar (Classical Arabic Dhu al-Fiqaar) was the two-pointed sword of Ali ibn Abi Talib. The text above the sword reads "Ali is the friend (wali) of God (Allah)". The inscription on the sword's blade reads "There is no hero (youth) except Ali; There is no sword except Dhulfiqar"