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Panjagan, the Glossary

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Panjagān was either a projectile weapon or an archery technique used by the late military of Sasanian Persia, by which a volley of five arrows was shot.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 22 relations: Abu Mansur Mauhub al-Jawaliqi, Ahmad Tafazzoli, Al-Jahiz, Al-Maqdisi, Al-Tabari, Arabic, Archery, Asawira, Aswaran, Basra, Battle of Hadhramaut, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Crossbow, Kaveh Farrokh, Mad minute, Middle Persian, Military of the Sasanian Empire, Polybolos, Ranged weapon, Repeating crossbow, Second Fitna, Turco-Persian wars.

  2. Crossbows
  3. History of archery
  4. Lost inventions
  5. Medieval archery
  6. Medieval weapons
  7. Military equipment of Asia
  8. Military history of the Sasanian Empire
  9. Projectile weapons
  10. Weapons of Iran

Abu Mansur Mauhub al-Jawaliqi

Abū Manṣūr Mauhūb al-Jawālīqī (April 1074–17 July 1144) was an Arab grammarian born in Baghdād, where he studied philology under Khātib al-Tibrizī (1030 - 1109) and became famous for his handwriting.

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Ahmad Tafazzoli

Ahmad Tafazzoli (December 16, 1937, Isfahan – January 15, 1997, Tehran) (احمد تفضلی) was an Iranian Iranist and professor of ancient Iranian languages and culture at Tehran University.

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Al-Jahiz

Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri (translit), commonly known as al-Jahiz (lit), was an Arabic polymath and author of works of literature (including theory and criticism), theology, zoology, philosophy, grammar, dialectics, rhetoric, philology, linguistics, and politico-religious polemics.

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Al-Maqdisi

Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr (translit; 991), commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi (translit) or al-Muqaddasī (ٱلْمُقَدَّسِي) was a medieval Palestinian Arab geographer, author of Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm (The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions), as well as author of the book, Description of Syria (Including Palestine).

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Al-Tabari

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد بْن جَرِير بْن يَزِيد ٱلطَّبَرِيّ; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (ٱلطَّبَرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, polymath, traditionalist, historian, exegete, jurist, and theologian from Amol, Tabaristan, present-day Iran.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Archery

Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows. Panjagan and Archery are medieval archery.

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Asawira

The Asawira (أساورة) were a military unit of the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphate.

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Aswaran

The Aswārān (singular aswār), also spelled Asbārān and Savaran, was a cavalry force that formed the backbone of the army of the Sasanian Empire.

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Basra

Basra (al-Baṣrah) is a city in southern Iraq.

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Battle of Hadhramaut

The Battle of Hadhramaut took place in 570 between the armies of the Sasanian Empire under the command of Spahbed Vahrez and Aksumite forces under King Masruq ibn Abraha.

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Clifford Edmund Bosworth

Clifford Edmund Bosworth FBA (29 December 1928 – 28 February 2015) was an English historian and Orientalist, specialising in Arabic and Iranian studies.

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Crossbow

A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an elastic launching device consisting of a bow-like assembly called a prod, mounted horizontally on a main frame called a tiller, which is hand-held in a similar fashion to the stock of a long gun. Panjagan and crossbow are ancient weapons, crossbows and medieval weapons.

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Kaveh Farrokh

Kaveh Farrokh (کاوه فرخ) is a Greek author of several academic books and peer-reviewed publications specializing in Iranian history, and has been a frequent lecturer on Iran-related topics at the University of British Columbia as part of the UBC Continuing Education program.

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Mad minute

The Mad Minute was a pre-World War I bolt-action rifle speed shooting exercise used by British Army riflemen, using the Lee–Enfield service rifle.

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Middle Persian

Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.

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Military of the Sasanian Empire

The Sasanian army was the primary military body of the Sasanian armed forces, serving alongside the Sasanian navy.

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Polybolos

The polybolos (the name means "multi-thrower" in Greek) was an ancient Greek repeating ballista, reputedly invented by Dionysius of Alexandria (a 3rd-century BC Greek engineer at the Rhodes arsenal) and used in antiquity. Panjagan and polybolos are Lost inventions and Projectile weapons.

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Ranged weapon

A ranged weapon is any weapon that can engage targets beyond hand-to-hand distance, i.e. at distances greater than the physical reach of the user holding the weapon itself. Panjagan and ranged weapon are Projectile weapons.

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Repeating crossbow

The repeating crossbow, also known as the repeater crossbow, and the Zhuge crossbow (also romanized Chu-ko-nu) due to its association with the Three Kingdoms-era strategist Zhuge Liang (181–234 AD), is a crossbow invented during the Warring States period in China that combined the bow spanning, bolt placing, and shooting actions into one motion. Panjagan and repeating crossbow are crossbows.

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Second Fitna

The Second Fitna was a period of general political and military disorder and civil war in the Islamic community during the early Umayyad Caliphate.

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Turco-Persian wars

The term Turco-Persian wars can refer to two sets of conflicts between Turkic states and Persian states: The Göktürk–Persian wars, between the Göktürks and the Sasanian Empire.

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See also

Crossbows

History of archery

Lost inventions

Medieval archery

Medieval weapons

Military equipment of Asia

  • Panjagan

Military history of the Sasanian Empire

Projectile weapons

Weapons of Iran

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjagan

Also known as Banjakan, Banjakia, Banjakiah, Banjakiya, Banjakiyah, Banjakiyya, Banjakiyyah, Fanjasqan, Fanrajan, Panjagān.