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 Posté le: Sam Juil 22, 2023 10:37 pm Sujet du message: Early Islamic Arab Cavalry |
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Should City and Jund Cavalry in the Arab Conquest (List #130) and Umayyad (List #131) be armored horse archers instead of lancers?
Eduard Alofs makes a case that like the Byzantine and Sassanid Cavalry they were horse archers. He states the evidence for early Arab and Syrian cavalry being lancers come from later sources who are projecting back the use of lances by Syrian Bedouins to this earlier era and that contemporary sources describe them using bows and fighting in the Byzantine and Persian style.
See:
Studies on Mounted Warfare in Asia I: Continuity and Change in Middle Eastern Warfare, c. CE 550-1350 — What Happened to the Horse Archer?
Eduard Alofs
War in History, Vol. 21, No. 4 (November 2014), pp. 423-444 (22 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26098617
(He also has several follow on articles discussing equipment, tactics, motivation, etc. of Byzantine, Persian, Arab, Mamluk and nomadic cavalry in the Middle East from 550-1350 AD.)
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