The Book
The book is in two volume in one holder that con tains around (1200) pages, The first volume consists of two parts, the first deals with the historical stages of the development of various Islamic weapons during the carly, middle, and late Islamic periods .The sccond part includes weapon types that existed during the carly and middle periods which are part of this private collection, representing weapons from the Rashidi, Umavyad and Abbasid periods then covering the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Timurid eras, ending with the many representative types of the Ottoman period.
The second volume contains the third and fourth part of the book, which shows images of different examples of the other remaining part of the private Islamic weapons collection, which is from the mid and late Islamic periods, such as those of India. Persia, and the Arab world. The last section includes examples of swords produced by weapon makers during the late Islamic period.
The collection
The private collection which the book represents de scribes a (one thousand one) items of mostly unpubished Islamic Arms and Armour, that covered most of Islamic era's, some of the swords that the collection contain, belong to eight Sultan's and more than thirty Prince's, such as: The Sword of Sultan Naimuldin Ayyub, The Sword of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, The Sword of Ottoman Sultan Mohammed Murad, The Sword of Mamluk Sultan Qaitabai, and more similar.
The collection has more than 135 names of Islamic swords and weapons makers. The quantity and the quality and sheer variety of this pri vate collection could possibly be the best known collee tion of Islamic swords and weapons