History of Ancient Bows of Arabia

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Today in Historical Archery, we will look at Arab Bows, specifically from the Neolithic era to the Muslim conquests of the 7th century. Collaboration with Al Mubarizun Archery about ancient Arab archery / channel
الأقواس العربية القديمة
Much of what is online today focuses on the later Arab bows after these conquests, and such archery content deserves its own videos. However, this video will go back to the ancient roots of the Arab bow
There is evidence that human habitation in the Arabian Peninsula dates back to about 125,000 years ago.[47] A 2011 study found that the first modern humans to spread east across Asia left Africa about 75,000 years ago across the strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, connecting the Horn of Africa and Arabia
In the Neolithic period, there were cultures in the arabian penisula such as Al-Magar, in modern-day southwestern Najd .
The culture is characterized as being one of the world's first to involve the widespread domestication of animals, particularly the horse, during the Neolithic period.
Aside from horses, animals such as sheep, goats, dogs, ostriches, falcons and fish were discovered in the form of stone statues and rock engravings.
This is where we encounter the rock engravings dating back more than 8000 years, making them likely the earliest depictions of bows in the Arabian peninsula
also look at the Excavation in Oman of miniature copper bows (900-600 bc).
it shows Bows with recurved tips, its uncertain whether these bows would have been longbows or composites.
These are miniature bows that are non-functional and made completely of copper.
Now lets look at assyrian reliefs
Dated around 645-635 BCE
its a Scene showing Assyrian forces pursuing Arab raiders during the reign of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria.
it shows bows with deflexed tips without the reflex at the handle. This is one of the rare depictions of camel archers in history as well.
Now lets look at the sources from the Greek and Roman world. If you recall, I made a video about the Syrian Composite “Yrzi” bow. In a related article, bone siyah reinforcements similar to the Yrzi bow was dug up in uae.
While we don’t know for certain what the bow looked like for these bone reinforcements , the only example we have so far is the “Yrzi” Roman-Syrian bow, so perhaps the arab composite bow was similar to the Yrzi bow as is hypothesized in the article. Waele, A. D. (2005). Composite bows at ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, U.A.E.). ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY, 16(2), 154-160.
In 70 AD the town of Emesa ( 160 kilometers north of Damascus) sent archers to aid the Roman siege of Jerusalem, with composite bows.
There was even a Headstone of a Syrian archer found along Hadrian's Wall in the british isles. Syrian units were also used to conquer parts of Arabia. There is a 1,000-strong camel unit called dromedarii, and it was established by Trajan in Syria. A small number of dromedarii is recorded in Dura-Europos in Roman Syria. Perhaps these camel units fought similar to their ancient ancestors with a mix of bow and melee weapons. They were likely successful against enemy horses, as horses are typically afraid of camels' scents.
When it comes to Northern Arabians, we have sources showing some Nabataean auxilia used by the roman army. Remember the romans had conquests in parts of northwestern arabia along with areas in the levant. There is evidence that the romans occupied as far as Hegra, of Northwestern Arabia.
And earlier there are greek sources mentioning arab archers, such as Ir-rony-mos of Cardia
But when it comes to Southern Arabia, there are very few sources left for us, especially when it comes to their archery equipment and techniques. What we can find however are some arrowheads that survived through time, that resemble similar designs to western arrowheads. Trade was common in this area so this is no surprise
in fact The volume of commerce between Rome and India via the Arabian Sea was huge since the conquest of Egypt by the Romans in 30 BC.
according to the historian Strabo: 120 Roman vessels sailed every year from egypt and many times touched southern Arabia Felix on their travel to India, while doing the Spice Route.
Now lets look at an artwork of 6th Century A.D from the Mozaic in Kayanos church in Mount Nebo in Jordan)
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it depicts a nomad leading a camel, with a Long bow with deflex tips and likely reflex handle slung across his back, similar design to the neolithic arab bows, but with more detail.
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@MomoHat123
@MomoHat123 Жыл бұрын
Mashallah, it’s so good to see Rashid and his work growing larger💪🏽
@halilibrahimkocoglu5899
@halilibrahimkocoglu5899 Жыл бұрын
Awesome video. Most times I wish I had a friend like your self. I can feel your passion reflecting off the videos you make and it makes it much more enjoyable. Once again thank you.
@HistoricalWeapons
@HistoricalWeapons Жыл бұрын
Any info on bactrian or Parthian bows? I want to make video about it next
@pyramid_scheme_termination3655
@pyramid_scheme_termination3655 Жыл бұрын
They are made from some bending material and a string
@marcellusbrutus3346
@marcellusbrutus3346 Жыл бұрын
@@pyramid_scheme_termination3655 lmao
@lichenggong1248
@lichenggong1248 Жыл бұрын
@@pyramid_scheme_termination3655 😂
@dsasd778
@dsasd778 Жыл бұрын
@@pyramid_scheme_termination3655thanks captain obv
@HistoricalWeapons
@HistoricalWeapons Жыл бұрын
@@pyramid_scheme_termination3655 legendary comment
@halilibrahimkocoglu5899
@halilibrahimkocoglu5899 Жыл бұрын
@10:35 I definitely would love to see one of these videos regarding when the Turkic bows took off and their pros and cons only if you have enough time please
@ianhathaway602
@ianhathaway602 Жыл бұрын
Awesome, please do more of these!
@mattjones6990
@mattjones6990 Жыл бұрын
Great pronunciation of Latin , Greek and Arabic
@vintagebowyer1692
@vintagebowyer1692 Жыл бұрын
He speaks some arabic
@Dnahwjjwjejnenex
@Dnahwjjwjejnenex Жыл бұрын
@@vintagebowyer1692 jack travelled like 50 countries i heard from his hitchhiking channel
@dingdong4156
@dingdong4156 Жыл бұрын
Legendary collab
@Maaguaa
@Maaguaa Жыл бұрын
Wow, very interesting 🤔 thank you for this video!
@MarcRitzMD
@MarcRitzMD Жыл бұрын
Those short bows be stacking hard
@mattjones6990
@mattjones6990 Жыл бұрын
Chest draw better
@almubarizunarchery4607
@almubarizunarchery4607 Жыл бұрын
It does stack, i made it pretty short, more than it is depicted
@ajithsidhu7183
@ajithsidhu7183 Жыл бұрын
Please do persia and india as well
@xiaotian5863
@xiaotian5863 Жыл бұрын
U guys gotta give him more support too
@mattjones6990
@mattjones6990 Жыл бұрын
He needs a patreon
@HistoricalWeapons
@HistoricalWeapons Жыл бұрын
I’d love to! Who wants to help! I need actors and research
@Aryandescendent4914
@Aryandescendent4914 Жыл бұрын
@@HistoricalWeapons here's some sources please try them. 1. A book called indian archery by C N pant. 2. A youtuber named praveenmohan, he can give you alot of knowledge about the topic of indian archery. 3. In india, recently we found two copper age Burrell site first sinauli and second main puri in these sites we found alot of swords, spear, shield and some bow and arrow imprints. 4. Mahabharata and ramayana is also an big source of ancient indian military art. Please please make a video on indian archery. Lots of love from 🇮🇳
@simonlauber9014
@simonlauber9014 Жыл бұрын
Great to see Rashid getting in on your projects. I respect him very much for his research and skill both in archery aswell as bow making.
@almubarizunarchery4607
@almubarizunarchery4607 Жыл бұрын
Always happy great to see my good friend simon 😁
@almubarizunarchery4607
@almubarizunarchery4607 Жыл бұрын
@Samsa çavuş Tis me
@ianbruce6515
@ianbruce6515 Жыл бұрын
That deflex tip is rather baffling . Some Egyptian depictions show these. I can see that this would add leverage at the beginning of the draw and make it possible to bend a heavy bow--but further into th draw stacking would kick in very early. I suspected that can only be an effective design In a very long stiff bow that has a short draw for it's length. I'd love to see some serious experimentation,!
@marcellusbrutus3346
@marcellusbrutus3346 Жыл бұрын
Bad wood
@HistoricalWeapons
@HistoricalWeapons Жыл бұрын
Qedarite bow based on assyrian reliefs of 600 bc
@JanoTuotanto
@JanoTuotanto Жыл бұрын
These are also known from North American western deserts. Supposedly it is for dry climate, to allow reasonable brace height and draw length without straining the limbs too much.
@ianbruce6515
@ianbruce6515 Жыл бұрын
Yes I have also read that it could be an adaption to a climate so dry that wood becomes brittle. The very long bow shorter draw solution seems to used in tropical rainforests where the opposite challenge is the issue--the high moisture content can cause the bow wood to behave as though it is green and take a large set if stressed very far
@HistoricalWeapons
@HistoricalWeapons Жыл бұрын
@@JanoTuotanto why not just long bow d
@zaj334
@zaj334 Жыл бұрын
Nice!!!!!
@sarchlalaith8836
@sarchlalaith8836 Жыл бұрын
Do we have any evidence of Sumerian bows?
@alexhage8092
@alexhage8092 Жыл бұрын
Assyrian.
@alexhage8092
@alexhage8092 Жыл бұрын
Assyria, Babylon and Sumer are all Mesopotamia Iraq, just regional and political differences.
@MarcRitzMD
@MarcRitzMD Жыл бұрын
@@alexhage8092 the difference between Assyrians and Sumerians was greater than that between Jews and Arabs
@Dnahwjjwjejnenex
@Dnahwjjwjejnenex Жыл бұрын
@@MarcRitzMD just ask the Palestinians
@sarchlalaith8836
@sarchlalaith8836 Жыл бұрын
@@alexhage8092 age too. In some cases hundreds of years.
@langoloql
@langoloql Жыл бұрын
That first short bow that the guy shoots look very similar to some north american bows. I wonder if people had similar thought process when making them
@vaurisyoutube
@vaurisyoutube Жыл бұрын
i would assume that they did. they essentially had the same materials, sinew, horn, wood, and the same type of brain. its just that in some cultures bows became more important than in others, and they developed them individually to their special needs. but they all started off with a flexible stick and a string tied to it
@dsasd778
@dsasd778 Жыл бұрын
@@vaurisyoutubeagreed
@skyrimJava
@skyrimJava Жыл бұрын
You mean the other way around this is 8000 years old
@IQSimpanse
@IQSimpanse Жыл бұрын
you can check at library they are lot arabic name at some native Indian tribe and i believe theyare merchant from arab who married with native cause american has been found and documented with arabs before colonial era
@skyrimJava
@skyrimJava Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@congaudeant
@congaudeant Жыл бұрын
More looks at deflex/decurve bows in the future would be interesting, I've been doing a bit of on and off research on native American ones that seem to be mostly made of of woods like cotton wood that are poor for bowmaking and possibly bent with heat to add their decurves. It would be nice to find more info on African, Levantine and Egyptian decurve bows.
@matthewkristenglenn
@matthewkristenglenn Жыл бұрын
Seriously awesome content. Love the pacing of the information and editing style.
@cool06alt
@cool06alt Жыл бұрын
Weak or not, these were the kind of bows that being used to fend off cavalry attacks of Byzantine and Persian, before their Catapracht showed. Such was shown in Battle of Yarmouk, Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, and etc.
@xiaotian5863
@xiaotian5863 Жыл бұрын
People only care about English longbow
@cool06alt
@cool06alt Жыл бұрын
@@xiaotian5863 Maybe they do. Until information about mongols bow and composite bows spread.
@marcellusbrutus3346
@marcellusbrutus3346 Жыл бұрын
Arab archers were ineffective against byzantine and persian cavalry. They were better in a melee
@cool06alt
@cool06alt Жыл бұрын
@@marcellusbrutus3346 They were effective against light horsemen and horse archers. The source seem to attest that.
@skyrimJava
@skyrimJava Жыл бұрын
@@cool06alt where
@ReasonAboveEverything
@ReasonAboveEverything Жыл бұрын
I saw a relief painting of canaanite pastoralists from 2000bc depicting in more detail two dudes with reflex deflex "gullwing bows". I suppose the practice of making a bow from Greenwood and simply reflexing the handle before it takes set was very common.
@matthewparsons4955
@matthewparsons4955 8 ай бұрын
Thank you for video and link to Al M.
@jessebeegee
@jessebeegee Жыл бұрын
this channel is just so cool
@esporter5721
@esporter5721 2 ай бұрын
Amazing video
@user-qd9nj1ux2r
@user-qd9nj1ux2r Жыл бұрын
Thanks man
@beepboop204
@beepboop204 Жыл бұрын
🙂
@justsomeguywithaboomerang1891
@justsomeguywithaboomerang1891 Жыл бұрын
Cool
@mattjones6990
@mattjones6990 Жыл бұрын
He needs to do bomerang
@bugger6881
@bugger6881 Жыл бұрын
Epic
@MarcRitzMD
@MarcRitzMD Жыл бұрын
Why didn't you check out Mohammed's alleged bow in the Chamber of the Holy Relics inside Topkapi Palace in Istanbul? Sources say it is made of bamboo, one other source called it a reed. The shape is difficult to understand.
@skyrimJava
@skyrimJava Жыл бұрын
Isnt that forbidden
@MarcRitzMD
@MarcRitzMD Жыл бұрын
@@skyrimJava I think it would be considered Sunnah, no? You would be trying to practice it like Mohammed
@Dnahwjjwjejnenex
@Dnahwjjwjejnenex Жыл бұрын
link
@MarcRitzMD
@MarcRitzMD Жыл бұрын
@@Dnahwjjwjejnenex pls try to google it, every time I post a link on youtube, it ends up getting deleted
@almubarizunarchery4607
@almubarizunarchery4607 Жыл бұрын
I did check it out and i actually made a replica, problem is, the authenticity of the prophet muhammeds possessions in the Topkapi are controversial
@bienyamientoefy1923
@bienyamientoefy1923 Ай бұрын
asalamu alykum.jazakallah gyran brother for the information on arabian bows.i love to build bows and have been building different types already.now insha ALLAH i will put in the skil ALLAH gave me to build an arasbian style bow
@biltonoxcho1471
@biltonoxcho1471 Жыл бұрын
Idk if you seen them but there are himyarit stone reliefs from 7th century iirc that show archers too
@user-qd9nj1ux2r
@user-qd9nj1ux2r Жыл бұрын
Link?
@almubarizunarchery4607
@almubarizunarchery4607 Жыл бұрын
Id like a link thanks
@beritadunia2588
@beritadunia2588 Жыл бұрын
Ma Sya Allah
@joaomanoel3197
@joaomanoel3197 Жыл бұрын
Muito bom.
@HistoricalWeapons
@HistoricalWeapons Жыл бұрын
Obrigado
@Balaclavaballistics
@Balaclavaballistics Жыл бұрын
How do I get one
@Thesandchief
@Thesandchief Жыл бұрын
lets see more arab bow content please
@user-kg9fw1mi6e
@user-kg9fw1mi6e Жыл бұрын
2:15, 2:57 both are self wooden bow? And what size of that bows?
@dsasd778
@dsasd778 Жыл бұрын
🎉🎉🎉
@elshebactm6769
@elshebactm6769 Жыл бұрын
🤠👍🏿
@lichenggong1248
@lichenggong1248 Жыл бұрын
Nice costume
@ianuser9650
@ianuser9650 Жыл бұрын
Excellent editing
@user-kg9fw1mi6e
@user-kg9fw1mi6e 8 ай бұрын
1:55-2:59 Does Socotra island also used bow like these?
@TruthBeliever5557
@TruthBeliever5557 Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤
@AlWarzy
@AlWarzy Жыл бұрын
Great video overall, when Arabs back in the day spoke of their Homeland, they called it the Arabian island, basically the Arabian plate in geology so Iraq Jordan and Syria even Sanai is the Arabian peninsula not these Sykes Picot modern borders 1:30
@TruthBeliever5557
@TruthBeliever5557 Жыл бұрын
Mashallah 😢
@Avist6
@Avist6 Жыл бұрын
The people are interested, please tell us more!
@paulhomsy2751
@paulhomsy2751 Жыл бұрын
Please don't ignore the fact that Egyptians had bows, some currently in museums, that are over 3500-4000 years old. Some of these bows were recurved, some were double limbed and some were made of all metal, some were composite bows. The Egyptian bas reliefs of temples as old as 4000 years depict archers, you can't ask for more proof than documentation etched in stone. Please get informed.
@HistoricalWeapons
@HistoricalWeapons Жыл бұрын
Ancient Egyptians are not arabs. Egyptians are irrelevant to the topic of this video lol
@Not-Just-Cars
@Not-Just-Cars Жыл бұрын
thumbs up
@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking
@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking Жыл бұрын
3:14 - Two archers astride a camel. Incredible. No bridal! Means directional control is either with foot/leg squeezes, or verbal commands. Whistles? Also - this means the people claiming "Camel Archery was not a historical thing" in games like AoE II - don't know what they're talking about. (And the rear-facing dude is practicing Parthian Shot - waaaay before it was cool.)
@HistoricalWeapons
@HistoricalWeapons Жыл бұрын
Exactly
@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking
@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking Жыл бұрын
@@HistoricalWeapons Your content is great mate, keep it up. :)
@Islam4all-0
@Islam4all-0 4 ай бұрын
أشكرك على جهدك بعمل الفيديو ولكن المعلومات فيه شحيحة ومغلوطة لعدم إحاطتك بشكل جيد حول الموضوع .
@zhangtony3372
@zhangtony3372 Жыл бұрын
@phawang37
@phawang37 Жыл бұрын
Yes
@markdennis254
@markdennis254 Жыл бұрын
International
@legntt3488
@legntt3488 Жыл бұрын
People only care about english longbow or east asia
@andkonblack
@andkonblack Жыл бұрын
Not even arabs care
@andkonblack
@andkonblack Жыл бұрын
They shoot compound
@almubarizunarchery4607
@almubarizunarchery4607 Жыл бұрын
@@andkonblack unfortunately true
@mattjones6990
@mattjones6990 Жыл бұрын
@@almubarizunarchery4607 warbow warbow warbow
@halilibrahimkocoglu5899
@halilibrahimkocoglu5899 Жыл бұрын
@@almubarizunarchery4607 مرحبا المبرزون. شكرا جزيلا لمساعدة هذا الصديق لك.
@coremotion
@coremotion Жыл бұрын
In the art they showed two arrows 😂
@siberiaacoustic
@siberiaacoustic Жыл бұрын
Ni yao chong xin jian jie
@mustamuri
@mustamuri Жыл бұрын
✨🧸✨ 👶👏🏹
@skyrimJava
@skyrimJava Жыл бұрын
Woe
@dhsescol
@dhsescol Жыл бұрын
Not as good as Mongol recurve bows. And look how close he's standing to the target!
@almubarizunarchery4607
@almubarizunarchery4607 Жыл бұрын
Doesnt have to be as good, the yrzi bow however is just as good. and im showcasing the bow not accuracy. Why even waste time typing this?
@user-qd9nj1ux2r
@user-qd9nj1ux2r Жыл бұрын
😂 he covers bows around the world. Good and bad
@cool06alt
@cool06alt Жыл бұрын
And Mongol bows were not as good as Manchu bows and late Mamluk bows. It's called technological development. People did not just invent composite bows with that particular shape, nor composite bows exist without self-bow being exist first. Nubian had the same bow and they told Achamenid Shah to just screw off don't bother to invade their land. Until they can draw their own deflex bows.
@BibtheChib
@BibtheChib Жыл бұрын
Yeah and the wing glider isn't as good as the F16 🤨
@kirkceridenbiri
@kirkceridenbiri Жыл бұрын
Children bow 😄😄
@mattjones6990
@mattjones6990 Жыл бұрын
Lmao go ahead and make fun of your ancestors
@halilibrahimkocoglu5899
@halilibrahimkocoglu5899 Жыл бұрын
@TürkGökbörü oğlum ne gülüyorsun lan. Ne güzel bizim kültürümüzün yaylarını araştırmak istediğini söyledi şayet biz istersek. Sende bu adamın bunca yaptığı araştırmaya gülüyorsun. Abim biz dünyaya böylemi örnek olacağız ?? Yazıklar olsun ne deyimki .
@marcellusbrutus3346
@marcellusbrutus3346 Жыл бұрын
@@halilibrahimkocoglu5899 haha
@fatboy8420
@fatboy8420 Жыл бұрын
Yes
@busurbusur2381
@busurbusur2381 Жыл бұрын
Yes
@langdavid6852
@langdavid6852 Жыл бұрын
Yes
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