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Firearms of the Islamic World: in the Tared Rajab Museum, Kuwait
Robert Elgood
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| #2942549 in Books | I. B. Tauris | 1995-11-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.11 x.92 x10.09l,3.08 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Great book on early Islamic firearms|By James D. Crabtree|I was fortunate enough to visit the Tareq Rajab Museum when I was last in Kuwait and saw most of the weapons in this book. Robert Elgood does an excellent job of putting these gunpowder guns in their historical perspective, especially as it divides the guns into various points of origin. The photographs of the weapons (a|From the Back Cover|The earliest surviving document referring to the use of gunpowder is Chinese and dates from AD 1044. The formula for gunpowder was passed through India and Persia to the Arabs and its first use in firearms in Europe is reported at an Arab sie
The first surviving reference to the use of gunpowder appears in a Chinese manuscript dating from 1044 AD. The formula for gunpowder was passed to the Arabs via India and Persia and its first use in firearms in Europe is reported at the Arab siege of Spain in 1324. While much has been written about the history of firearms in Europe and North America, their development in the Islamic world and their subsequent history there has been almost totally neglected.
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