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 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)
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