Rashidun Army - Weaponry

Weaponry

Reconstructing the military equipment of early Muslim armies is problematic. Compared with Roman armies—or, indeed, later medieval Muslim armies—the range of visual representation is very small, often imprecise and difficult to date. Physically very little material evidence has survived and again, much of it is difficult to date. Most of the Pre-Islamic Arabian military equipment came from Syria, Iraq, Armenia and Yeman. A great deal more would then have been captured during the early conquest.