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247 Alexander S. Matveev. A Case of Survival of an Early Medieval Straight Sword... strap under his left arm— the same way as the ‘Fuzzi-Wuzzi’ didmuch later, and likewise had been inflicting a lot of ‘evil’ on their British adversaries, as recognized by another ‘bard of war’, Kipling. Another example showing traditional Arabic way of carrying swords, can be found on the illustrations to the mid-13th C. Maqamas of al-Hariri in Iraq and early 14thC. Rashid al-din’s “WorldHistory”miniatures from Tabriz, on the scenes depicting the life of the Prophet 1 (Fig. 11–12). This tradition survived for long, until it was suppressed by a new fashion of attaching swords to the belt, which happened almost everywhere in the Middle East — except Sudan and Arabia. In Egypt, for instance, the European way of wearing swords was introduced by Muhammad Ali as a part of his military reforms. 1 Sheila Blair. A Compendium of Chronicles. Rashid al-Din’s illus- trated history of the world. (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, v. XXVII). Oxford, 1995. Fig. 34 (fol. 66a), fig. 35 (fol. 67a), fig. 36 (fol. 72a), fig. 49 (fol. 292a). Fig. 10. Mandinca sword with scabbard (left) and kaskara in scabbard