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  1. 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.

  2. Mamluk | History, Significance, Leaders, & Decline | Britannica

    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 …

  3. 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 …

  4. Mamluk | Encyclopedia.com

    May 8, 2018 · Mamluk or Mameluke (măm´əlōōk) [Arab.,=slaves], a warrior caste dominant in Egypt and influential in the Middle East [1] for over 700 years.

  5. Mamluk - Wikiwand

    Mamluk or Mamaluk were non-Arab, ethnically diverse enslaved mercenaries, slave-soldiers, and freed slaves who were assigned high-ranking military and administr...

  6. Mamluk Sultanate Definition - AP World History: Modern Key Term

    The Mamluk Sultanate was a medieval Islamic state that ruled Egypt and the Levant from the 13th to the 16th centuries, established by former slave soldiers known as Mamluks.

  7. 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 …

  8. Mamluks - Medieval Chronicles

    The Mamluk dynasty or Mamluk sultanate was a kingdom during the middles ages that spread over the areas of the Hejaz, the Levant, and Egypt.

  9. 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 …

  10. 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 …