Tabar Zin

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The Tabar Zin or tabar-i-zin (also Tabarzin or Tabarzine ; partly translated as "saddle hatchet ") is a traditional battle ax in Persia and India which was mainly used by the cavalry . It has one or two crescent-shaped blades, and sometimes, like a halberd , a sharp spike opposite the ax blade. The long form of the tabar was over two meters long, while shorter versions were less than a meter.

Emblem of a Sufi order

The tabar was once a weapon of religious warriors ( Ghazi ), and was adopted by knight orders associated with Sufism and the dervishes. It is still worn today as a symbolic weapon by wandering dervishes as a symbol of spiritual readiness to fight.

The name Tabar Zin has in today's meaning Tabar / "ax" and Zin / "Gemächt" (for example with the horse), some sources, however, attribute Zin to Zar, the old word for "war".

literature

• Complete Persian culture (Dary dialect) by Gholam-reza Ensaf-pur

Web links

• Tabar in the Royal Armories

literature

• David Nicolle , Angus McBride: Mughul India 1504-1761, Verlag Osprey Publishing, 1993, ISBN 9781855323445 , page 43, [1]
• David Nicolle, Adam Hook: Armies of the Caliphates 862-1098, Verlag Osprey Publishing, 1998, ISBN 9781855327702 , page 17, [2]

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Lamborn Wilson , Karl Schlamminger: Weaver of Tales. Persian Picture Rugs / Persian tapestries. Linked myths. Callwey, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7667-0532-6 , pp. 15 and 19.