Mameluke sword
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A Mameluke sword is a cross-hilted, curved, scimitar-like sword historically derived from sabres used by Mamluk warriors of Ottoman Egypt after whom the sword is named. Egypt was, at least nominally,
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Napoleon in Egypt, c. 1863, with a Mameluke sword, Princeton University Art Museum
Today's U.S. Marine Corps officers' Mameluke sword closely resembles those first worn in 1826.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, circa 1900
Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, a British Hussar general, with a scabbarded kilij (related to Mameluke sword) of Turkish manufacture (1812)
Shamshir
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A shamshir is a type of Iranian sword with a radical curve. The name is derived from the Persian word shamshīr, which is made of two words sham and shir. The curved "scimitar" sword family includes th
Mameluke sword
…but their blades tended to be longer, narrower and less curved than those of the true kilij, while being wider and also less curved than the Persian shamshir. In short, the hilt retained its original shape. but the blade tended to resemble the blade-form typical of contemporary Western military sabres. The…
Uzbek warrior armed with bow and arrows, khanjar, flail, and a shamshir
Syrian shamshir from the Royal Armoury, Stockholm