Mamluk - Wikipedia Mamluk, also spelled Mameluke, 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
Who Were the Mamluks? - History Today The Mamluk and Mongol armies encamped in Palestine in July 1260, and met at Ayn Jalut on 8 September Initially, the Mamluks encountered a detached division of Mongols and drove them to the banks of the Orontes River
Mamluk dynasty | rulers of Egypt and Syria [1250–1517] | Britannica 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 Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire By the late 15th century, the Mamluk Sultanate was suffering from political strife, rebellions, and wars against the Ottoman Empire and the Portuguese These problems caused destabilization and economic distress
Mamluks - New World Encyclopedia 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 Art of the Mamluk Period (1250–1517) Within a short period of time, the Mamluks created the greatest Islamic empire of the later Middle Ages, which included control of the holy cities Mecca and Medina The Mamluk capital, Cairo, became the economic, cultural, and artistic center of the Arab Islamic world
Mamluk Sultanate - Wikipedia 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, with Cairo as its capital
Sultanates: Mamluk - Encyclopedia. com 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)
The Fierce Warrior-Enslaved People Known as the Mamluks The term mamluk means "slave" in Arabic, and comes from the root malaka, meaning "to possess " Thus, a mamluk was a person who was owned It is interesting to compare Turkish Mamluks with Japanese geisha or Korean gisaeng, in that they were technically considered women of pleasure, yet they could hold a very high status in society
Mamluk | History, Significance, Leaders, Decline | Britannica 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