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Jul 27, 2022 · Based on the conference "The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria" held at SOAS in 2009 Includes bibliographical references (p. ... Full catalog record MARCXML ...
Jul 15, 2020 · "For more than half a millenium the Mamluks - military slaves emanating from the steppes of southern Russia and later from the Caucasus and the Balkans - wielded power over Egypt. During this time they formed a remarkable political, military and economic elite, ruling as sovereigns from 1250 to 1517 and, after the Ottoman conquest of Egypt ...
"The Mamlūks in Egypt and Syria: the Turkish Mamlūk Sultanate (648-784/ 1250-1382) and the Circassian Mamlūk Sultanate (784-923/ 1382-1517)," by Amalia Levanoni, Chapter 8 from Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 2, The Western Islamic World Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries (New York, 2010), in 77 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages.
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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 Turkic origin eventually overthrew the last independent Ayyubid sultan in Egypt, Turan Shah (r. 1249–50), and established their own rule.
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 ...
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Sep 26, 2013 · Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mamluks, who ruled Egypt and Syria from about 1250 to 1517. Originally slave soldiers who managed to depose their masters, they went on to repel the Mongols ...
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 a sultan.
