OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY

This kilij’s blade is damascened with v. 23 of sura al-hashr, followed by the fifteen beautiful names of God, eight of which are contained in the last three verses of this sura. Sura al-hashr, the chapter of gathering before banishment or exile, addresses and warns hypocrites, evil-doers and disbelievers of divine reprisal referring to the expulsion of the Medinan Banu al-Nadir from their land after the battle of Uhud in 625 (http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e291, accessed 04/09/2017).