Mamluk

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• An Islamic oil lamp stand from the Mamluk period (A.D. 1244-1517) was also broken.

  Academic text (2009)

• After two hours, the Mamluks call off their attack and retreat.

• Around 1750, when the Janissaries began to lose their influence to the Mamluk beys, the picture changed.

  Academic text (1993)

• As historical records inform us, women in particular excelled in religious scholarship through the late Mamluk period, the 14th and 15th centuries of the common era.

  Blog text (19)

• In several cases, these women even became de facto rulers in Iran, Mamluk Egypt, South Asia, and the Ottoman Empire.

  Academic text (2007)

• Ibn Hajar's student, al-Sakhawi, dedicated one whole volume of his encyclopaedic biographical work on famous scholars from the Mamluk period to women alone.

  Blog text (19)

• Napoleon, however, failed to establish a pro-French government, and his evacuation of Egypt in 1801 left the country in a state of chaos characterized by a continued struggle for political power between rival Mamluk and Ottoman forces.

  Academic text (1993)

• This perhaps raises a historical analogy: The Mamluk sultans (1260-1517) tried to get their non-slave sons to succeed them and sometimes managed it, but they were not from the military slave caste and eventually petered out, to be replaced by a proper Mamluk.

  Academic text (2010)

• The Mamluks ruled Egypt with a strong military presence during the 13th century.

• Many historians study the Mamluks to understand their influence on medieval Islamic culture.

Synonyms

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Mameluke

vsMamluk

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A member of a military group who ruled Egypt from the 1200s to the early 1800s

covers an earlier period of rule ending in the sixteenth century

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Mameluke soldier

vsMamluk

9.9

A soldier from old Egypt who began life as a slave and later ruled

has a shorter rule ending in the sixteenth century

Surface Forms

Etymology