Islam and the Abode of War: Military slaves and Islamic adversaries/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Turkish |
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Aldershot, Great Britain Brookfield, Vt., USA:
Variorum,
1994
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| Series: | Collected studies series
CS456 |
| Subjects: |
| Item Description: | The military reforms of Caliph al-Mutasim: their background and consequences -- II. Mamluk: military slavery in Egypt and Syria -- III. From Ayyubids to Mamluks -- IV. Bahri Mamluks, Burji Mamluks:inadequate names for the two reigns of the Mamluk sultanate -- V. The Mamluk novice: on his youthfulness and on his original religion -- VI.Mamluk military aristocracy: a non-hereditary nobility -- VII. The auxiliary forces of the Mamluk sultanate -- VIII. Some remarks on the economic decline of the Mamluk sultanate -- IX. The end of the Mamluk sultanate: why did the Ottomans spare the Mamluks of Egypt and wipe out the Mamluks of Syria? -- X. Mamluk military aristocracy during the first years of the Ottoman occupation of Egypt -- XI. On the term khadim in the sense of 'eunuch' in the early Muslim sources -- XII. The Nubian Dam -- XIII. Islam versus Christian Europe: the case of the Holy Land -- XIV. The impact of firearms on the Muslim world. |
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| Physical Description: | x, [298 p.] ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0860784304 |