Archery Articles and Resources

Archery Articles and Resources

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Articles:

Review: A weekend of Horseback Archery

Archery and Islam – Focusing our Youth through a forgotten Sunnah

EMEL - the lifestyle magazine's coverage of the archery club

A collection of Sahih Hadith on archery

A colletion of Sahih Hadith on horses

Literature:

How long was a Gez? - English translation of original by by Z. Metin Ates.

Archery in the Period of Sultan Mahmud - by Unsal Yücel

Maydan as-sibaq - by N.A. Faris.

Arab Archery - by J.D. Latham.

The Contribution of Archery to the Turkish Conquest of Anatolia - by Walter Emil.

Turkish Flight Arrows - Fred Isles.

A Treatise on Turkish Bows

A Book on The Excellence of The Bow & Arrow -"Kitab fi bayau fadl al-qaws w-al-sahm wa-awsufihima"

Archers of Islam - by W. F. Paterson

Book of Archery - By George Agar Hansard, published in 1840

On Bows and Arrows - English translation of German work by Hammer-Purgstall (see below)

Saracen Archery - "Kitab ghunyat at-tullab fi marifat ramy an-mushshab"  translated by J.D. Latham & W.F Paterson. Download from the BHAA website.

Turkish Traditional Archery - By Murat Ozveri

Ûber Bogen und Pfeil - By Dr. F. Hammer-Purgstall (German language)

Interesting Pictures:

The Ottoman Coat of Arms

Caliph Murat II in Archery Practice

Bow Stringing