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  • The slave soldier (called ghulam and, from the 11th century, mamluk) became a member of a new military elite that steadily took control of Abbasid politics.

    803 2001

  • A Mameluke (Arabic: "owned"; also transliterated mameluk, mamluk, or mamluke) was a slave soldier or sailor who converted to Islam and served the Ottoman Empire during the Middle Ages.

    American Chronicle 2009

  • This Anufh - tekin, or rather Anufh Takin, denominated Bufekin Al Dariri by Al Makin, was originally a Turk, brought as a mamluk, or Have, by fome merchants into Syria; where he was purchafed by Darir, a Deylamite, a perfon of great power in that country, who gave him to the khalif of Egypt.

    The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1780

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