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Mamluk or Mamaluk (/ ˈ m æ m ə l uː k /; Arabic: مملوك, romanized: mamlūk (singular), مماليك, mamālīk (plural); translated as "one who is owned", meaning "slave") were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-soldiers, and freed slaves who were ...
May 31, 2024 · Mamluk, slave soldier, a member of one of the armies of slaves that won political control of several Muslim states. Under the Ayyubid sultanate, Mamluk generals used their power to establish a dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517.
The Mamluk Sultanate (Arabic: سلطنة المماليك, romanized: Salṭanat al-Mamālīk), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries.
Sep 5, 2018 · How the Mamluks, the slave-warriors of medieval Islam, overthrew their masters, defeated the Mongols and the Crusaders and established a dynasty. The Tombs of the Mamluks, Cairo, Egypt, 1910s. The Mamluks ruled Egypt and Syria from 1250 until 1517, when their dynasty was extinguished by the Ottomans.
Egypt’s heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and, like Mesopotamia farther east, was the site of one of the world’s earliest urban and literate. Mamlūk dynasty, or Mamluke dynasty , (1250–1517) Rulers of Syria and Egypt.
The Mamluk sultanate (1250–1517) emerged from the weakening of the Ayyubid realm in Egypt and Syria (1250–60).
Egypt - Mamluk, Ottoman, 1250-1800: During the Mamluk period Egypt became the unrivaled political, economic, and cultural centre of the eastern Arabic-speaking zone of the Muslim world. Symbolic of this development was the reestablishment in 1261 under the Mamluk rulers of the Abbasid caliphate—destroyed by the Mongols in their sack of ...
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May 8, 2018 · Mamluk (Arabic, ‘slave’) Military elite in Egypt and other Arab countries. In 1250, the Mamluks of Egypt overthrew the Ayyubid dynasty. They halted the Mongols, defeated the Crusaders and crushed the Assassins.
A Mamluk (Arabic: مملوك (singular), مماليك (plural), "owned"; also transliterated mameluk, mameluke, or mamluke) was a slave-soldier who converted to Islam and served the Muslim caliphs and the Ottoman Empire during the Middle Ages.
The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria (1250–1517) had its origins in the recruitment of military slaves (Arabic mamluk, literally "owned") by the Ayyubid sultan of Egypt, al-Malik al-Salih (d. 1249). By this time, military slavery was a well-established institution in the Islamic world.
