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Apr 4, 2024 · Mamluk, slave soldier, a member of one of the armies of slaves established during the Abbasid era that later 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 name is derived from an Arabic word for slave.
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Mamluk or Mamaluk (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 duties, serving the ruling Arab ...
- 830s – 1811
Sep 5, 2018 · 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. But Mamluks had first appeared in the Abbasid caliphate in the ninth century and even after their overthrow by the Ottomans they continued to form an important part of Egyptian Islamic ...
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Egypt portal. v. t. e. 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. It was ruled by a military caste of mamluks (freed slave soldiers) headed by ...
Mamlūk dynasty, or Mamluke dynasty, (1250–1517) Rulers of Syria and Egypt. The term mamlūk is an Arabic word for slave. Slave soldiers had been used in the Islamic world since the 9th century, and they often exploited the military power vested in them to seize control from the legitimate political authorities. In 1250 a group of mamlūk ...
Jan 1, 2022 · The massacre of the Mamluks at Cairo, Egypt, painted by Horace Vernet. (Horace Vernet / Public domain) A Bloody End of the Mamluks in 1811. The Mamluk soldiers survived well into the Napoleonic era. During the Napoleonic Wars, the mamluks that served the Ottoman Empire could trace their lineage of service back to the 13th century.
