Turkish archery

Turkish archery

Medieval Turkish archery is detailed in "Kitab ghunyat at-tullab fi marifat ramy an-mushshab" ("A Book of Essential Archery for Beginners") and "Kitab fi bayau fadl al-qaws w-al-sahm wa-awsufihima" ("A Book on the Excellence of the Bow and Arrow")

The books say that the fundamentals of archery constitute six elements:
*grasping the bow,
*nocking the arrow,
*locking the fingers on the bow string,
*drawing the bow,
*sighting the mark,
*loosing the arrow.

There are three classes of shooting from horseback:
*"kighaj" or "qiqaj", "slant", or shooting downwards,
*shooting up ("kabak" or "qabaq", "gourd")
*horizontal shooting, which is in between the two main ones. Within these classes there are from 10 to 17 basic ways recognized by various archery masters.

External links

* [http://www.turkisharchery.info "Turkish Traditional Archery"]
* [http://www.caama.ca/kitab/clisting.html "Essential Archery for Beginners", translation]
* [http://www.caama.ca/kitab2/seclistin.html "A Book on the Excellence of the Bow and Arrow", translation]


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