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Ofirehorn:
Bravo Sierra. Dervishism is a type of Sufi mysticism involving the use of dances to acheieve a transcendental state: nothing to do with fighting of any kind.
Secondly, go back and read your history; REAL history, if you please. When the Arabs kept their distance ( not difficult, since their bows had greater range ) they cut the Crusaders to bits. If it came down to handfighting, the numbers were almost morbidly lopsided. Among the unarmored Crusaders the numbers were similar between Europeans and Arabs, but against heavy maille, boiled leather, and padded jerkin, a light scimitar is almost useless. You'll still get injuries from blunt trauma, but very little if any penetration. Look at what happened once the Crusaders entered Acre for a good example: forced to fight close-in, the Arabs were literally massacred; "And we rode into the city with blood up to the ankles of our horses" wrote John Marshall.
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