Dear friends, Razmafzar is now systemaized and eady to be launched. For all lovers of historical matial arts of Iran who wish to learn and get an official license I would like to encourage you to contact Manouchehr@moshtaghkhorasani.com, Kind regards, Dr. Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani Latest developments @ No usage of the name “Razmafzar” is allowed without Dr. Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani’s permission. March 27, 2012 March 28, 2012 I am happy to announce the publication of our new article "Jāme al-Hadāyat Fi Elm al-Romāyat [Complete Guide Concerning the Science of Archery]" in the Italian peer-reviwe journal Quarderni Asiatici. The text analyzes the famed Safavid-period manuscript on archery. This is the first time that this detailed and wonderful Persian manual on Persian archery is presented to the world. I would like to thank my fellow researcher and above all friend, who has written and penned this article with me. He was on my side from the beginning. he was on the editorial board on archery section on my first book "Arms and Armor from Iran: The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period" and he served as the editor for the archery section of my fourth book "Lexicon of Arms and Armor from Iran: A Study of Symbols and Terminology". Our article details: -Dwyer, Bede and Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani (2012b). Jāme al-Hadāyat Fi Elm al-Romāyat [Complete Guide Concerning the Science of Archery]. Quarderni Asiatici 97, n. 97 - Marzo 2012, pp. 45-60. Bede Dwyer has pursued his interest in oriental archery for approximately 36 years of his adult life. In that time, he has researched the archery traditions of Turkey, Mamluk Egypt, Iran, Northern India, Mongolia, China and Korea. Rather than just compile information from old books, he has actively tested equipment and techniques. He makes archers’ rings, arrows, quivers and bow cases. He was the first person to shoot an arrow guide of the style of a Persian nāvak (Arabic majrā) in the American Flight Archery Tournament at Bonneville Flats in Utah. He also uses the Ottoman siper overdraw in flight shooting and briefly held a world distance record for shooting a hunting arrow with a traditional composite bow. For more than a decade he has been publishing articles in the peer-review Journal of the Society of Archer-Antiquaries on archaeological remains of archery equipment ranging from ancient repeating cross bows. He was invited by Stephen Selby to read through and comment on some of the drafts of Chinese Archery and later to present a paper at the opening of the archery collection in the Maritime Museum of Hong Kong. He attended two horse archery festivals in Iowa, where he presented a talk on arrow guides with a demonstration. Dr Khorasani asked him to edit some sections of both Arms and Armor from Iran The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period and the Lexicon of Arms and Armor from Iran. He also worked with his old friend Dr Charles E. Grayson on his collection in the University of Missouri Columbia and did some research for his book on the collection, Traditional Archery from Six Continents: The Charles E. Grayson Collection. This was particularly satisfying since it was Dr Grayson who introduced him to flight archery with all its challenges. Over the past few years he has attended the World Traditional Archery Festival in South Korea, occasionally presenting papers at seminars there. This enabled him to meet archers and researchers from the cultures he had been studying. Recently he has been able to set more time aside to follow up on his research and is planning two books on archery to be published over the next few years.