historic persons can fetch exorbitant prices, like that of the Sheikh of the Bakils, Sheikh Al-Shaif, which goes back to Imam Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din and was reported to have cost US$1,000,000 when bought in 1992. Popular culture T. E. Lawrence was famous for using a jambiya knife historically. He was portrayed using one in the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, the 1989 book Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence, the 1990 television film A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia, and the documentary Deadliest Warrior. Aladdin owns a jambiya left by his father, and uses it to fight Sa'Luk in the 1996 film Aladdin and the King of Thieves. Geralt of Rivia owns a dagger that resembles a jambiya in the 2007 game The Witcher. Ezio Auditore wields a jambiya in Assassin's Creed: Revelations. Kratos can find a Jambiya in God of War: Ragnarök. See also Khanjar Keris Jile Lawrence of Arabia References Sources External links Arab culture Arab inventions Daggers