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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 assigned high-ranking military and administrative ...
Suzan Yalman. Department of Education, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2001. The Mamluk sultanate (1250–1517) emerged from the weakening of the Ayyubid realm in Egypt and Syria (1250–60). Ayyubid sultans depended on slave (Arabic: mamluk, literally “owned,” or slave) soldiers for military organization, yet mamluks of Qipchaq ...
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Apr 4, 2024 · Under the Ayyubid sultanate, Mamluk generals used their power to establish a dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. The Mamluk class came to an end under the rule of Muhammad Ali in Egypt.
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Jun 3, 2022 · A map illustrating the rise and evolution of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt from its beginning as an act of rebellion of a slave army against its masters from the Ayyubid dynasty, through its fair share of internal turbulence and strife, into one of the most powerful and wealthiest states of the late medieval world that ruled Egypt, the Levant ...
Bibliography. History of the Mamluk Sultanate. The History of the Mamluk Sultanate, an empire based in Egypt and Syria, spans the period between the mid-13th century, with the overthrow of the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt, and 1517, when it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
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 ...
Here we also see an architectural technique that alternates between white, black, and reddish stone to create a striped building. Side entrance portal (2008-12) by Matjaž Kačičnik American Research...
