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That's very interesting Corey. My Arabic is a little rusty, but "Kitaab Al-Furesiya" definitely mean "Book of Fencing" in Modern Arabic. While it is true that most of the technical aspects of Arabic have not changed much, a lot of words in Modern Arabic were not present, or are c...

Thank you for the link Jaron. I wonder why there are so few extant materials detailing such arts in the middle-east. Iran(Persia) seems to have some well documented forms of wrestling (I'm looking at Silat as an example) yet apart from modern day manuals at my local bookstore (which aren't even that...

Hallo everyone, I'm new to the forums and not exactly sure if I should make a topic about this, but here goes. Recently I came into possession of a late 17th Century antique Arabic Scimitar known as a "Saif". Being a fan of both the German Renaissance arts of Meyer as well the enchantment ...

Valhalla Rising also has some very nice one vs. many and one on one fight scenes. Not the most artistic, but they get the job done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqp_QWguWDQ

The entire movie is well worth watching.