Matrak

Matrak is an Ottoman combat sport based on sword and shield fighting, Invented by the Ottoman Bosnian statesman, historian and scientist Nasuh Matrakčija Visočak (full name in Turkish: Nasuh bin Karagöz bin Abdullah el-Bosnavî) in the 16th century.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] It is played with wooden sticks covered with leather simulating a sword, and a wooden leather covered shield. The top of the sticks are rounded and slightly wider than the body resembling bowling pins. The game is a kind of combat simulation, and is played on a lawn. It was used by Ottoman soldiers as practice for melee combat.

In the television series Muhteşem Yüzyıl, it is shown as a combat-game.

References[]

^ Salim Ayduz. "Nasuh Al-Matrakî, A Noteworthy Ottoman Artist-Mathematician of the Sixteenth Century". muslimheritage.com. Muslim Heritage. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
^ Jonathan M. Bloom; Sheila Blair (2009). "Nasuh Matrakci [Nasuh al-Silahi al-Matraqi; Nasuh ibn Qaragoz ibn 'Abdallah al-Busnawi] (b. Visoko, Bosnia...". The Grove encyclopedia of Islamic art and architecture. Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. p. 49.
^ Corlu, M. Sencer; Burlbaw, Lynn M.; Capraro, Robert M; Corlu, M. Ali & Han, Sunyoung. "The Ottoman Palace School Enderun and the Man with Multiple Talents, Matrakçı Nasuh, p. 23". Journal of the Korea Society of Mathematical Education Series D: Research in Mathematical Education Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2010, 19–31. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
^ "International Journal of Turkish Studies, vol. 10, issue 1-2". University of Wisconsin (2004), p. 57; The famous Bosnian writer Nasuh Matrakci (d. 1564 in all likelihood) is represented by two manuscripts:... {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
^ Halil İnalcık; Cemal Kafadar. "Süleymân The Second [i.e. the First] and his time". Isis Press (1993), p. 270; Matrakci Nasuh was a devfirme boy from Bosnia trained in the palace school. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

External links[]

Türkiye Geleneksel Spor Dalları Federasyonu "Matrak" (in Turkish)

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[1] Salim Ayduz. "Nasuh Al-Matrakî, A Noteworthy Ottoman Artist-Mathematician of the Sixteenth Century". muslimheritage.com. Muslim Heritage. Retrieved 3 March 2015.

[2] Jonathan M. Bloom; Sheila Blair (2009). "Nasuh Matrakci [Nasuh al-Silahi al-Matraqi; Nasuh ibn Qaragoz ibn 'Abdallah al-Busnawi] (b. Visoko, Bosnia...". The Grove encyclopedia of Islamic art and architecture. Vol. 2. Oxford University Press. p. 49.

[3] Corlu, M. Sencer; Burlbaw, Lynn M.; Capraro, Robert M; Corlu, M. Ali & Han, Sunyoung. "The Ottoman Palace School Enderun and the Man with Multiple Talents, Matrakçı Nasuh, p. 23". Journal of the Korea Society of Mathematical Education Series D: Research in Mathematical Education Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2010, 19–31. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA. Retrieved 5 January 2013.

[4] "International Journal of Turkish Studies, vol. 10, issue 1-2". University of Wisconsin (2004), p. 57; The famous Bosnian writer Nasuh Matrakci (d. 1564 in all likelihood) is represented by two manuscripts:... {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

[5] Halil İnalcık; Cemal Kafadar. "Süleymân The Second [i.e. the First] and his time". Isis Press (1993), p. 270; Matrakci Nasuh was a devfirme boy from Bosnia trained in the palace school. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

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