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A Shamsir sword is the Muslim saber par excellence. With a curved blade and a cross of short hawks, its stylized blade curves regularly from its first third. Single-edged, except for its last stabbing section, it was a one-handed weapon.
The Shamsir are a variant of the Turkish-Oriental cutlasses (originally Eastern Dao sabers) that, following the Mongol invasions and their subsequent Balkan developments, ended up being the traditional Muslim scimitars that we all know, and which, later, in the 13th century, were imported by the Chinese empire, given their immense quality and effectiveness, to India, China, Pakistan, etc.
Due to the characteristics of the nations and armies (and armor) where it predominated, the Shamsir, thanks to the great technology of forging and metallurgy, with its sharp Damascus steel edges, became a weapon of enviable manufacture from the East to the European courts. In fact, except for the important cities of the Middle and Near East, the "Damasquino" style forging technique was only done in Toledo (for many decades the city "dwelled" on the conquered peninsula).
Thus, although in the beginning the weapons of the East were just as straight as in Europe, their use, normally in cavalry troops, as well as their immense quality and cutting capacity, meant that straight-edged swords were no longer used throughout the South and the East.
