Turk Okculugu by Unsal Yucel-Content in English

Murat ?zveri · Post by **Murat ?zveri** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:53 pm

Please find enclosed the content of Turk Okculugu, the fabulous book of Dr. Unsal Yucel about Turkish traditional archery. I hope it helps Engllish speaking members who own the book.

Regards.

Murat

Forword .............. v
Content .............. vii
List of pictures ............ xi
Introduction ................ I

Chapter I

I.Turkish Archery until New Age ............. P.9
II.Turkish Archery in New Age
A-War Archery and Bowhunting
1-War archery
2- Bowhuntin
B-The Religious Aspect of Archery
C-Literature Review
III.Archery as Sport .................................P. 35
A-Target Archery
1-Pumpkin (Kabak) Shooting
2-Indoor Shooting Ranges
3-?Puta? Shooting
B-Demonstrations and Shows
IV.Flight Archery ....................................P. 55
A-Okmeydanlari (lit. ?Place of Arrow?, in Plural form; Outdoor shooting ranges mostly used for flight shooting)
1--Okmeydani (Singular form) of Edirne
2-Okmeydani of Gallipoli
3-Okmeydani of Bursa
B- Okmeydani of Istanbul .......................P 68
1-Establishing of the Foundation, its borders, its protection
2-Buildings and Institutions of Okmeydani
3-The Incomes of the Foundation
4-The management of the Meydan
5-Kabza Almak (lit. ?taking the grip, meaning the ceremonial taking of a bow from the teacher?s hand, declaring the graduation of a licensed archer, a kemankes. Kemankes is approximately pronounced ?cam-un-cash?. Our web site?s address is ?www.kemankes.com?. Have a look at it)
6-Menzil a?mak (pronounced ?man-zeel, means flight shooting line. ?Menzil a?mak? means opening a new shooting line by shooting an arrow at least 900 gez or 594 metres and making the Meydan management accept and declare the line), Menzil almak (Making a new record shot in one the shooting lines), Taş diktirtmek (Monumental stone marbles were installed when a record is broken. These monuments were called nisantasi, or neesh-un-tushee, as it?s pronounced)
C- Competitions ...........................116
1-The rules
2-Competition and Awards
V.Menziller (Shooting lines in flight shooting)
VI.The Menzil holder cam-un-cash s

Chapter II

I-Turkish Bows and Arrows ........................P. 240
A-Turkish Bows
1-The construction of the bows
2-The results of the measurements and examinations
2a. The Lengths of Bows
2b.The Composition of Bows
2c.The (physical) Weight of Bows
2d.Additional Information About Bow Construction
2e.Examination of Particular Parts of Bows
2f.Sagri (horse hide) and toz (beech bark) application on (the back) of bows
3-Bowstring (?ile, pron. ?chee-la?)
3a. Making the string
3b. Length, diameter and physical weight of strings
B- Turkish Arrows ..............................P. 274
1-Making of Arrows
1a. Making of the Arrow Shaft
1b. Preparing and Finishing the Nock
1c.Installing the Point (?soya? is the point for flight arrows, made of ivory, bone or horn; ?temren? is the general name of all metal points, used for target arrows)
1d. The Fletching
2-The types of Arrows
2a. Flight Arrows
2b. Practice arrows for Flight Shooting
2c.Puta (target) Arrows
2d. Practice arrows (for beginners and for indoors shooting)
2e. Tirkeş (pron. ?teer-cash?) or War Arrows
3-The weights of Arrows ......................... P. 301
4-The Balance of Arrows
5-Repair of Broken Arrows
II- Accessories in Archery (or lit. ?supporting archery equipment )
A- Grip Wrapping (?moo-shum-ma? or ?moo-shum-ba? means ?waxed stuff?, used for making the grip bulkier for a safer grip)
1-Making of and the spesifications of musamba
2-How to use
B- Kemend (Bowstringer) .................................. P.308
C- Zihgir (pron. zeh-geer) or sast (shust)- The Thumbring
D- Bilek Siperi (It?s also known as ?siper?, pron. see-par?. ?Bilek means ?wrist?. Siper is translated as ?arrow guide? by Dr. Klopsteg. I thought it was used as an over draw. But recently I found some photographs of Ottoman archers drawing with a siper and appearently for target shooting. According to Dr. Yucel it?s an overdraw).
1-Making of and the spesifications of Siper)
2-How to use

Bede · Post by **Bede** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:13 pm

Thanks Murat.
We all appreciate your help.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 12:16 am

What a gold mine this book is! If only it were in english!

I'm a little confusd though, is it in old turkish or new turkish?

Dave

Murat ?zveri · Post by **Murat ?zveri** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:41 am

My pleasure Bede.

The book is in New Turkish. There are only a few books about traditional archery published after the foundation of Republic (with new Alphabet). Turk Okculugu is a masterpiece but does not include the shooting technique. Another book that is available in new alphabet is Kitab fi ilm an-nussab, a treatise written in Maemluk Kiptchak in 14th century. The book is a philological analysis of that treatise and focused on shooting technique. The technique seems to be a little different than that of Ottoman archers. For example the draw is taught to be up to the ear as it is in other Middle Eastern and Asian styles. (Bede and Adam will remember the discussions we had about the shorter draw lengths of kemankes)

Anyway, both books and the Ottoman scripts we have offer enough encouragment to start arising the old tradition with the known and unknown details.

M.

jack farrell · Post by **jack farrell** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:15 pm

Murat; You are a gentleman and a scholar. Many thanks. -j-

jiao · Post by **jiao** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 4:23 pm

perhaps a way so easy , buy a lexicon/dictionary you can understand 60-80% of this book

Jeno Major · Post by **Jeno Major** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:42 pm

Yes, Murat IS a gentleman and a scholar. (And I am shure he is worthy to be an EU citizen...)

redhawk · Post by **redhawk** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:23 am

Murat and Jeno,........and I have to add,that I feel ashamed as a european German by the behaviour of the upcoming german Bundeskanzler Angela Merkel......I don?t know where she lives!

Murat ?zveri · Post by **Murat ?zveri** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:48 pm

Jen?, my dear friend,

Thanks for the nice compliments. Friends are like mirrors that you see your own image in. It's your gentleness and intellectual depth what you see.

Redhawk,

Machen Sie bitte keine Sorgen. Wenn die Voreingenommenheiten der Politiker veranlasst werden koennten, w?rden die V?lker bestimmt bessere Beziehungen haben. That's what we have been discussing with Jen? and other Hungarian friends. Both the cultural differences and similiarities can be used for intellectual enrichment and for becoming consociates. It's just like the contribution of people of different national and ethnic origins to Asian traditional archery. Certainly there are more "we"s than "you and I" s.

Best regards to all.

Murat

Turk Okculugu by Unsal Yucel-Content in English

Turk Okculugu by Unsal Yucel-Content in English

turk okculugu......

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