The saber Ibn Fahdlan makes is a curved sword which is exclusively Turkish. Arabs at that time used straight swords similar to western broadswords. An Arab nobleman wouldn't know how to make one even if he had an anachronistic/exotic taste for Turkish cavalry sabers. Turkish style curved swords became fashionable in the Middle-East after large groups of Central Asian Turks began to be enlisted by Islamic armies later.Not exclusively Turkish. Ahmed is from Baghdad, the trade and cultural center of the 10th century Islamic world, and could easily have seen the curved blade design, which had been in use for centuries. He was a quick study and may well have had help from the village metalworker to reshape the sword. The Vikings were skilled swordsmiths who used high-carbon steel to forge, for example, the famous Ulfberht swords.
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