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mamluks (noun) - referring to a group of non-Arab, Muslim slave soldiers who became rulers in Egypt and other parts of the Islamic world in the medieval period. They played a significant role in shaping the history of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Mamluks also served in elite positions.
He then assigned emirates to over thirty of his own mamluks.
Then the mamluks appear and try to catch them.
He could still mount a horse and ride with his mamluks.
Mamluks entered the ḥalqah.
This partially explains his purges of the thousands of mamluks purchased by his predecessors.
Mamluks annihilated them as well.
Egypt at the time was controlled by the Mamluks.
Mamluks were enslaved soldiers.
He was wounded and captured by the Mamluks.
Mamluks lived within their garrisons and mainly spent their time with each other.
Egypt was under the rule of a military cast named Mamluks.
After the mamluks blocked the street to the citadel preventing the royal emirs from leaving.
Armenia also engaged in an economic battle with the Mamluks.
Rise of the Mamluks and fall of EgyptEdit.
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Their ammunition and guns fell into the hands of the Mamluks.
Later Mamluks were trained as cavalry soldiers.
By the same decree the company of Mamluks was attached to the regiment.
The mamluks used Sidon as their base of operations.
They also attempted to gain some financial leverage over the Mamluks.
And if the Mamluks had not stopped another of.
I do not understand how my father could have overlooked it and gone to fight the Mamluks.
The Mamluks added a prominent tower to the castle.
The outer arches added by the Mamluks follow the same general design.
The Mamluks pursued him and set the tower on fire.
Literature and astronomy were two subjects which the Mamluks valued and participated in heavily.
This gave the Mamluks a welcome pretext to rid themselves of him.
Jahan Pahlavan suppressed all rebellious emirs and appointed faithful mamluks to key positions.
Egypt under the Mamluks was not a very secure place to live.
Genoa finally cancelled the agreement and signed a new treaty with the Mamluks instead.
The age of the Mamluks is often referred to as a renaissance of Islamic arts.
Next year he allied himself with Baybars of Mamluks.
Many of the Mamluks believed that the battle would soon be lost.
Others joined the Mamluks willingly.
The Mamluks remained proud in their tradition and tended to disregard the usage of firearms.
Other elements were added by Mamluks and then by the Ottomans.
The Mamluks started viewing their iqta as hereditary and became attuned to urban living.
Yusuf was taken prisoner by the Mamluks and sent to Hulagu.
The Mamluks consolidated their power in ten years and eventually established the Bahri dynasty.
The Ottoman overthrow of the Mamluks brought about important changes.
The Mamluks constructed some additions to the mosque and engraved several inscriptions on its surface.
Zamil was defeated by ʿIsa and the Mamluks and was imprisoned in Cairo.
Unlike the Mamluks they lived to apply the lessons they had learnt on the battlefield.
Persecution flared up during the rule of the Mamluks and Ottomans.
And it was from the Mamluks that the next ruler of Egypt would come about.
It belongs to the Mamluks.
Heavy fighting ensued and the Mamluks eventually withdrew taking their dead and wounded with them.
Mamluks intervened and Mehmed was defeated.
Gujarat fought the Portuguese fleets in collaboration with the Mamluks.
The Mamluks were slave soldiers originally.
