Another Jambiya for Comment

[A.alnakkas]

Here it is; I was wrong it belongs to the shaikh of Bakail. As you can see the niello work is not like the older Yemeni one, even though it copies the old Yemeni niello writings but is of better quality. The scenery is that of the dijla with river boats and some Iraqi monuments. I have seen identical work on daggers coming out of Iraq with gold coins etc.

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by A.alnakkas

Here it is; I was wrong it belongs to the shaikh of Bakail. As you can see the niello work is not like the older Yemeni one, even though it copies the old Yemeni niello writings but is of better quality. The scenery is that of the dijla with river boats and some Iraqi monuments. I have seen identical work on daggers coming out of Iraq with gold coins etc.

Salaams A.alnakkas Remarkable and very confusing at the same time... There must be quite a story behind this since how did the Iraqi people tie up with Yemeni style Jambias...Is this a Bedouin linkage? I'm sure the answer is straight forward but perhaps you can outline what transpired ...Although I am familiar with neillo I have never seen this style before.

Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.

[A.alnakkas]

Originally Posted by Ibrahiim al Balooshi

Salaams A.alnakkas Remarkable and very confusing at the same time... There must be quite a story behind this since how did the Iraqi people tie up with Yemeni style Jambias...Is this a Bedouin linkage? I'm sure the answer is straight forward but perhaps you can outline what transpired ...Although I am familiar with neillo I have never seen this style before.

Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.

Well Bakail as far as I know does not have a branch in Iraq. Perhaps the shaikh must have commissioned an Iraqi worker to make it, or maybe it was a gift.

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by A.alnakkas

Well Bakail as far as I know does not have a branch in Iraq. Perhaps the shaikh must have commissioned an Iraqi worker to make it, or maybe it was a gift.

Salaams Can you give a brief rendition so that we can see the Bakail regional disposition... I was looking at "Tribes of the Euphrates" and trying to trace the provenance... Is this a Yemeni tribe?

Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.

[Michael Blalock]

The Bakil are one of the tribal federations of Yemen that go back to pre-islamic times along with the Hashid tribe. We have had photo of the late Shiek of Sheiks, Abdullah Hussain Al-Ahmar's Jambiya posted awhile back. Both federations were primarily Zaidi though nowadays the majority of the population in Yemen is Sunni.

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by Michael Blalock

The Bakil are one of the tribal federations of Yemen that go back to pre-islamic times along with the Hashid tribe. We have had photo of the late Shiek of Sheiks, Abdullah Hussain Al-Ahmar's Jambiya posted awhile back. Both federations were primarily Zaidi though nowadays the majority of the population in Yemen is Sunni.

Salaams Michael Blalock ~Thank you for that detail ... I was backtracking generally looking for this sort of Neillo decoration and stumbled onto http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=11437 and wanted to copy a key picture on your thread kindly placed by Steve..and to place your thread as a reference.
Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.

[A.alnakkas]

The niello work on the shaikh's jambiya is different from the older Yemeni made ones.

http://oriental-arms.com/photos.php?id=1203

This is an Iraqi gdaimi with identical decoration to the shaikh jambiya, the style is defined by scenery generally of al ahwar and the rivers dejla and furat and other Iraqi monuments.