[MR] New book on Turks

[Garth G. Groff]

M'Lord Achbar,

No, we don't. Three works do come up with a subject search for "Islamic 
armor" (the authorized subject tracing):

THE ARTS OF WAR: ARMS AND ARMOR OF THE 7TH TO 19TH CENTURIES by David 
Alexander (ISBN 9780197276181, call # FINE ARTS N6264. G7 L667 1992 vol. 
21).

al-Ani-q fi- al-mana-ji-q /|cwad.a?a Urnbugha- Zardaka-sh (no ISBN, call 
# ALDERMAN U813 .I85 Z36 1981) I didn't try to capitalize this, and the 
diacritics are going crazy.

ISLAMIC ARMS AND ARMOUR OF MUSLIM INDIA by Syed Zafar Haider (no ISBN; 
call # ALDERMAN U821.I4 H35 1991).

These are available on interlibrary loan through your local public or 
university library (though they might not actually come from UVA).

I just did a search on the OCLC database (the main international library 
catalog), and found 55 hits listed with the subject "Islamic armor" or 
some variant (some may be the same books). The only one specific to 
Turkey is SILAHLAR by Turgay Tezcan (no ISBN; OCLC record 21101964; 
I?stanbul : Yap? ve Kredi Bankas? Ku?ltu?r ve Sanat Hizmetleri, 1983; 
call # NK6608.9 .T49 1983).

The book I just reviewed has several photos of armor from the 
exhibition. I noticed a helmet and a mail shirt (plus some swords), and 
there are figures in paintings wearing armor.

Kind regards,

Lord Mungo Napier, Shire of Isenfir's Unofficial Librarian



Achbar Ibn Ali wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:46:23 -0400, you wrote:
>
>   
>> Just cataloged for UVA Library: TURKS, A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND YEARS, 
>> 600-1600, edited by David J. Roxburgh (ISBN 1903973562; our call # FINE 
>> ARTS N7161.T87 2005). 
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>
>> Lord Mungo Napier, Shire of Isenfir's Unofficial Librarian
>>     

>> Thanks for this information.   Do you have any books dealing with
>> Turkish Armor?
>>
>> Achbar
>>