Mamluk
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مماليك | |
freed slaves |
Mamluk or Mamaluk (
The most enduring Mamluk realm was the
Over time, Mamluks became a powerful military knightly class in various
While Mamluks were purchased as property,
Overview
Daniel Pipes argued that the first indication of the Mamluk military class was rooted in the practice of early Muslims such as
Meanwhile, historians agree that the massive implementation of a slave military class such as the Mamluks appears to have developed in Islamic societies beginning with the 9th-century Abbasid Caliphate based in Baghdad, under the Abbasid caliph al-Muʿtaṣim.[5] Until the 1990s, it was widely believed that the earliest Mamluks were known as Ghilman or Ghulam[6] (another broadly synonymous term for slaves,)[Note 1] and were bought by the Abbasid caliphs, especially al-Mu'tasim (833–842).
By the end of the 9th century, such slave warriors had become the dominant element in the military. Conflict between the Ghilman and the population of Baghdad prompted the caliph al-Mu'tasim to move his capital to the city of Samarra, but this did not succeed in calming tensions. The caliph al-Mutawakkil was assassinated by some of these slave soldiers in 861 (see Anarchy at Samarra).[25]
Since the early 21st century, historians have suggested that there was a distinction between the Mamluk system and the (earlier) Ghilman system, in Samarra, which did not have specialized training and was based on pre-existing Central Asian hierarchies. Adult slaves and freemen both served as warriors in the Ghilman system. The Mamluk system developed later, after the return of the caliphate to Baghdad in the 870s. It included the systematic training of young slaves in military and martial skills.[26] The Mamluk system is considered to have been a small-scale experiment of al-Muwaffaq, to combine the slaves' efficiency as warriors with improved reliability. This recent interpretation seems to have been accepted.[27]
After the fragmentation of the Abbasid Empire, military slaves, known as either Mamluks or Ghilman, were used throughout the Islamic world as the basis of military power. The
Under
Organization
Under the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo, Mamluks were purchased while still young males. They were raised in the barracks of the Citadel of Cairo. Because of their isolated social status (no social ties or political affiliations) and their austere military training, they were trusted to be loyal to their rulers.[23] When their training was completed, they were discharged, but remained attached to the patron who had purchased them. Mamluks relied on the help of their patron for career advancement, and likewise the patron's reputation and power depended on his recruits. A Mamluk was "bound by a strong esprit de corps to his peers in the same household".[23]
Mamluks lived within their garrisons and mainly spent their time with each other. Their entertainments included sporting events such as archery competitions and presentations of mounted combat skills at least once a week. The intensive and rigorous training of each new recruit helped ensure continuity of Mamluk practices.[9]
Sultans owned the largest number of mamluks, but lesser
Relations with homelands and families
In Egypt, studies have shown that mamluks from Georgia retained their native language, were aware of the politics of the Caucasus region, and received frequent visits from their parents or other relatives. In addition, they sent gifts to family members or gave money to build useful structures (a defensive tower, or even a church) in their native villages.[29]
Egypt
Early origins in Egypt
- See also: Balkan slave trade
The practice of recruiting slaves as soldiers in the Muslim world and turning them into Mamluks began in Baghdad during the 9th century CE,[4] and was started by the Abbasid caliph al-Muʿtaṣim.[5]
From the 900s through the 1200s,
By 1200,
French attack and Mamluk takeover
In June 1249, the Seventh Crusade under Louis IX of France landed in Egypt and took Damietta. After the Egyptian troops retreated at first, the sultan had more than 50 commanders hanged as deserters.
When the Egyptian sultan
Because of political pressure for a male leader, Shajar married the Mamluk commander,
The first Mamluk dynasty was named Bahri after the name of one of the
]Relationship with the Mongols
When the
After taking Damascus, Hulagu demanded that Qutuz surrender Egypt. Qutuz had Hulagu's envoys killed and, with Baibars' help, mobilized his troops.When Möngke Khan died in action against the Southern Song, Hulagu pulled the majority of his forces out of Syria to attend the kurultai (funeral ceremony). He left his lieutenant, the Christian Kitbuqa, in charge with a token force of about 18,000 men as a garrison.[33] The Mamluk army, led by Qutuz, drew the reduced Ilkhanate army into an ambush near the Orontes River, routed them at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260, and captured and executed Kitbuqa.
After this great triumph, Qutuz was assassinated by conspiring Mamluks. It was widely said that Baibars, who seized power, had been involved in the assassination plot. In the following centuries, the Mamluks ruled discontinuously, with an average span of seven years.
The Mamluks defeated the Ilkhanates a second time in the First Battle of Homs and began to drive them back east. In the process they consolidated their power over Syria, fortified the area, and formed mail routes and diplomatic connections among the local princes. Baibars' troops attacked Acre in 1263, captured Caesarea in 1265, and took Antioch in 1268.
Mamluks also defeated new Ilkhanate attacks in Syria in 1271 and 1281 (the
Burji dynasty
By the late fourteenth century, the majority of the Mamluk ranks were made up of
Barquq became an enemy of Timur, who threatened to invade Syria. Timur invaded Syria, defeating the Mamluk army, and he sacked Aleppo and captured Damascus. The Ottoman sultan, Bayezid I, then invaded Syria. After Timur's death in 1405, the Mamluk sultan an-Nasir Faraj regained control of Syria. Frequently facing rebellions by local emirs, he was forced to abdicate in 1412. In 1421, Egypt was attacked by the Kingdom of Cyprus, but the Egyptians forced the Cypriotes to acknowledge the suzerainty of the Egyptian sultan Barsbay. During Barsbay's reign, Egypt's population became greatly reduced from what it had been a few centuries before; it had one-fifth the number of towns.
Al-Ashraf came to power in 1453. He had friendly relations with the Ottoman Empire, which captured
Portuguese–Mamluk Wars
The rulers of
The last Mamluk sultan, Al-Ghawri, fitted out a fleet of 50 vessels. As Mamluks had little expertise in naval warfare, he sought help from the Ottomans to develop this naval enterprise.
But, in the following year, the Portuguese won the
Ottomans and the end of the Mamluk Sultanate
The Ottoman Sultan
After the
In 1515, Selim began the war which led to the conquest of Egypt and its dependencies. Mamluk cavalry proved no match for the Ottoman artillery and
The Mamluk Sultanate survived in Egypt until 1517, when Selim captured Cairo on 20 January. Although not in the same form as under the Sultanate, the Ottoman Empire retained the Mamluks as an Egyptian ruling class and the Mamluks and the Burji family succeeded in regaining much of their influence, but as vassals of the Ottomans.[36][37]
Independence from the Ottomans
In 1768,
Napoleon invades
In 1798, the ruling
The French defeated a Mamluk army in the Battle of the Pyramids and drove the survivors out to Upper Egypt. The Mamluks relied on massed cavalry charges, changed only by the addition of muskets. The French infantry formed square and held firm. Despite multiple victories and an initially successful expedition into Syria, mounting conflict in Europe and the earlier defeat of the supporting French fleet by the British Royal Navy at the Battle of the Nile decided the issue.
On 14 September 1799, General
Napoleon left with his personal guard in late 1799. His successor in Egypt, General Jean-Baptiste Kléber, was assassinated on 14 June 1800. Command of the Army in Egypt fell to Jacques-François Menou. Isolated and out of supplies, Menou surrendered to the British in 1801.
After Napoleon
After the departure of French troops in 1801 the Mamluks continued their struggle for independence; this time against the Ottoman Empire. In 1803, Mamluk leaders Ibrahim Bey and Osman Bey al-Bardisi wrote to the Russian consul-general, asking him to mediate with the Sultan to allow them to negotiate for a cease-fire, and a return to their homeland Georgia. The Russian ambassador in Constantinople refused however to intervene, because of nationalist unrest in Georgia that might have been encouraged by a Mamluk return.[36]
In 1805, the population of Cairo rebelled. This provided a chance for the Mamluks to seize power, but internal friction prevented them from exploiting this opportunity. In 1806, the Mamluks defeated the Turkish forces in several clashes. in June the rival parties concluded an agreement by which Muhammad Ali, (appointed as governor of Egypt on 26 March 1806), was to be removed and authority returned to the Mamluks. However, they were again unable to capitalize on this opportunity due to discord between factions. Muhammad Ali retained his authority.[9]
End of power in Egypt
Muhammad Ali knew that he would have to deal with the Mamluks if he wanted to control Egypt. They were still the feudal owners of Egypt and their land was still the source of wealth and power. However, the economic strain of sustaining the military manpower necessary to defend the Mamluks's system from the Europeans and Turks would eventually weaken them to the point of collapse.[38]
On 1 March 1811, Muhammad Ali invited all of the leading Mamluks to his palace to celebrate the declaration of war against the Wahhabis in Arabia. Between 600 and 700 Mamluks paraded for this purpose in
During the following week an estimated 3,000 Mamluks and their relatives were killed throughout Egypt, by Muhammad's regular troops. In the citadel of Cairo alone more than 1,000 Mamluks died.
Despite Muhammad Ali's destruction of the Mamluks in Egypt, a party of them escaped and fled south into what is now
Impact
According to Eric Chaney and Lisa Blades, the reliance on mamluks by Muslim rulers had a profound impact on the Arab world's political development. They argue that, because European rulers had to rely on local elites for military forces, lords and bourgeois acquired the necessary bargaining power to push for representative government. Muslim rulers did not face the same pressures partly because the Mamluks allowed the Sultans to bypass local elites.[40]
Other regimes
There were various places in which Mamluks gained political or military power as a self-replicating military community. Some examples of this can be seen in the Tripolitania region of Libya, where Mamluk governors instated their various policies under the Ottoman Empire until October 18, 1912, when Italian forces took over the region in the Italo-Turkish war.
South Asia
India
In 1206, the Mamluk commander of the Muslim forces in the Indian subcontinent,
West Asia
Iraq
Mamluk corps were first introduced in
Rulers
In Egypt
Bahri Dynasty
- 1250 al-Salih Ayyub's Widow de facto ruler of Egypt)
- 1250 Aybak
- 1257 Al-Mansur Ali
- 1259 Qutuz
- 1260 Baibars
- 1277 Al-Said Barakah
- 1280 Solamish
- 1280 Qalawun
- 1290 al-Ashraf Salah-ad-Din Khalil
- 1294 al-Nasir Muhammad first reign
- 1295 al-Adil Kitbugha
- 1297 Lajin
- 1299 al-Nasir Muhammad second reign
- 1309 al-Muzaffar Rukn-ad-Din Baybars II al-Jashankir
- 1310 al-Nasir Muhammad third reign
- 1340 Saif ad-Din Abu-Bakr
- 1341 Kujuk
- 1342 An-Nasir Ahmad, Sultan of Egypt
- 1342 As-Salih Ismail, Sultan of Egypt
- 1345 Al-Kamil Sha'ban
- 1346 Al-Muzaffar Hajji
- 1347 al-Nasir Badr-ad-Din Abu al-Ma'aly al-Hassanfirst reign
- 1351 al-Salih Salah-ad-Din Ibn Muhammad
- 1354 al-Nasir Badr-ad-Din Abu al-Ma'aly al-Hassansecond reign
- 1361 al-Mansur Salah-ad-Din Mohamed Ibn Hajji
- 1363 al-Ashraf Zein al-Din Abu al-Ma'ali ibn Shaban
- 1376 al-Mansur Ala-ad-Din Ali Ibn al-Ashraf Shaban
- 1382 al-Salih Salah Zein al-Din Hajji IIfirst reign
Burji Dynasty
- 1382 Barquq, first reign
- 1389 Hajji IIsecond reign (with honorific title al-Muzaffar or al-Mansur) – Temporary Bahri rule
- 1390 Barquq, Second reign – Burji rule re-established
- 1399 An-Nasir Naseer ad-Din Faraj
- 1405 Al-Mansoor Azzaddin Abdal Aziz
- 1405 An-Nasir Naseer ad-Din Faraj(second time)
- 1412 Abbasid Caliph, proclaimed as Sultan)
- 1412 Al-Muayad Sayf ad-Din Shaykh
- 1421 Al-Muzaffar Ahmad
- 1421 Az-Zahir Saif ad-Din Tatar
- 1421 As-Salih Nasir ad-Din Muhammad
- 1422 Barsbay
- 1438 Al-Aziz Jamal ad-Din Yusuf
- 1438 Jaqmaq
- 1453 Al-Mansoor Fakhr ad-Din Osman
- 1453 Al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Din Enal
- 1461 Al-Muayad Shihab ad-Din Ahmad
- 1461 Az-Zahir Sayf ad-Din Khushkadam
- 1467 Az-Zahir Sayf ad-Din Bilbay
- 1468 Az-Zahir Temurbougha
- 1468 Qaitbay
- 1496 al-Nasir Abu al-Sa'adat Muhammad bin Qait Bay first reign
- 1497 Qansuh Khumsama'ah
- 1497 al-Nasir Abu al-Sa'adat Muhammad bin Qait Bay second reign
- 1498 Qansuh Al-Ashrafi
- 1500 Al-Bilal Ayub
- 1500 Al-Ashraf Janbalat
- 1501 Tuman bay I
- 1501 Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri
- 1517 Tuman bay II
In India
- 1206 Mamluk Sultanate, Delhi
- 1210 Aram Shah
- 1211 Shams ud din Iltutmish. Son-in-law of Qutb-ud-din Aybak.
- 1236 Rukn ud din Firuz. Son of Iltutmish.
- 1236 Razia Sultana. Daughter of Iltutmish.
- 1240 Muiz ud din Bahram. Son of Iltutmish.
- 1242 Ala ud din Masud. Son of Rukn ud din.
- 1246 Nasiruddin Mahmud. Grandson of Iltutmish.
- 1266 Ghiyas ud din Balban. Ex-slave, son-in-law of Iltutmish.
- 1286 Muiz ud din Qaiqabad. Grandson of Balban and Nasiruddin.
- 1290 Kayumars. Son of Muiz ud din.
In Iraq
- 1704 Hasan Pasha
- 1723 Ahmad Pasha, son of Hasan
- 1749 Sulayman Abu Layla Pasha, son-in-law of Ahmad
- 1762 Omar Pasha, son of Ahmad
- 1780 Sulayman Pasha the Great, son of Omar
- 1802 Ali Pasha, son of Omar
- 1807 Sulayman Pasha the Little, son of Sulayman Great
- 1813 Said Pasha, son of Sulayman Great
- 1816 Dawud Pasha (1816–1831)
In Acre
- 1805 Jezzar Pasha
- 1819 Abdullah Pasha ibn Ali (1819–1831)
Office titles and terminology
The following terms originally come from either
English | Arabic | Notes |
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Alama Sultaniya | علامة سلطانية | The mark or signature of the Sultan put on his decrees, letters and documents. |
Al-Nafir al-Am | النفير العام | General emergency declared during war |
Amir | أمير | Prince |
Amir Akhur | أمير آخور | supervisor of the royal stable (from Persian آخور meaning stable) |
Amir Majlis | أمير مجلس | Guard of Sultan's seat and bed |
Atabek | أتابك | Commander in chief (literally "father-lord," originally meaning an appointed step-father for a non-Mamluk minor prince) |
Astadar | أستادار | Chief of the royal servants |
Barid Jawi | بريد جوى | Airmail (mail sent by carrier-pigeons, amplified by Sultan Baibars )
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Bayt al-Mal | بيت المال | treasury |
Cheshmeh | ششمه | A pool of water, or fountain (literally "eye"), from Persian چشمه |
Dawadar
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دوادار | Holder of Sultan's ink bottle (from Persian دواتدار meaning bearer of the ink bottle) |
Fondok | فندق | Hotel (some famous hotels in Cairo during the Mamluk era were Dar al-Tofah, Fondok Bilal and Fondok al-Salih) |
Hajib | حاجب | Doorkeeper of sultan's court |
Iqta | إقطاع | Revenue from land allotment |
Jamkiya | جامكية | Salary paid to a Mamluk |
Jashnakir | جاشنكير | Food taster of the sultan (to assure his beer was not poisoned) |
Jomdar | جمدار | An official at the department of the Sultan's clothing (from Persian جامهدار, meaning keeper of cloths) |
Kafel al-mamalek al-sharifah al-islamiya al-amir al-amri | كافل الممالك الشريفة الاسلامية الأمير الأمرى | Title of the Vice-sultan (Guardian of the Prince of Command [lit. Commander-in-command] of the Dignified Islamic Kingdoms) |
Khan | خان | A store that specialized in selling a certain commodity |
Khaskiya | خاصكية | Courtiers of the sultan and most trusted royal mamluks who functioned as the Sultan's bodyguards/ A privileged group around a prominent Amir (from Persian خاصگیان, meaning close associates) |
Khastakhaneh | خاصتاخانة | Hospital (from Ottoman Turkish خستهخانه, from Persian) |
Khond | خند | Wife of the sultan |
Khushdashiya | خشداشية | Mamluks belonging to the same Amir or Sultan. |
Mahkamat al-Mazalim | محكمة المظالم | Court of complaint. A court that heard cases of complaints of people against state officials. This court was headed by the sultan himself. |
Mamalik Kitabeya | مماليك كتابية | Mamluks still attending training classes and who still live at the Tebaq (campus) |
Mamalik Sultaneya | مماليك سلطانية | Mamluks of the sultan; to distinguish from the Mamluks of the Amirs (princes) |
Modwarat al-Sultan | مدورة السلطان | Sultan's tent which he used during travel. |
Mohtaseb | محتسب | Controller of markets, public works and local affairs. |
Morqadar | مرقدار | Works in the Royal Kitchen (from Persian مرغدار meaning one responsible for the fowl) |
Mushrif | مشرف | Supervisor of the Royal Kitchen |
Na'ib Al-Sultan | نائب السلطان | Vice-sultan |
Qa'at al-insha'a | قاعة الإنشاء | Chancery hall |
Qadi al-Qoda | قاضى القضاة | Chief justice |
Qalat al-Jabal | قلعة الجبل | Citadel of the Mountain (the abode and court of the sultan in Cairo) |
Qaranisa | قرانصة | Mamluks who moved to the service of a new Sultan or from the service of an Amir to a sultan. |
Qussad | قصاد | Secret couriers and agents who kept the sultan informed |
Ostaz | أستاذ | Benefactor of Mamluks (the Sultan or the Emir) (from Persian استاد) |
Rank | رنك | An emblem that distinguished the rank and position of a Mamluk (probably from Persian رنگ meaning color) |
Sanjaqi | سنجاقى | A standard-bearer of the Sultan. |
Sharabkhana | شرابخانة | Storehouse for drinks, medicines and glass-wares of the sultan. (from Persian شرابخانه meaning wine cellar) |
Silihdar | سلحدار | Arm-Bearer (from Arabic سلاح + Persian دار, meaning arm-bearer) |
Tabalkhana | طبلخانه | The amir responsible for the Mamluk military band, from Persian طبلخانه |
Tashrif | تشريف | Head-covering worn by a Mamluk during the ceremony of inauguration to the position of Amir. |
Tawashi | طواشى | A Eunuch responsible for serving the wives of the sultan and supervising new Mamluks. Mamluk writers seem not to have consulted the eunuchs themselves about "their origins."[43]
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Tebaq | طباق | Campus of the Mamluks at the citadel of the mountain |
Tishtkhana | طشتخانة | Storehouse used for the laundry of the sultan (from Persian تشتخانه, meaning tub room) |
Wali | والى | viceroy |
Yuq | يوق | A large linen closet used in every mamluk home, which stored pillows and sheets. (Related to the present Crimean Tatar word Yuqa, "to sleep". In modern Turkish: Yüklük.) |
Gallery
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Portrait of a Mamluk, 1779
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A Mamluk cavalryman, drawing by Carle Vernet, 1810
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Francisco de Goya(1814)
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Armenian Mamluk Roustam Raza was Napoleon's personal bodyguard; portrait by Jacques-Nicolas Paillot de Montabert (1806)
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Soldiers of Napoleon's 62ème régiment de ligne and a Mamluk (historical reenactment)
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Today'sU.S. Marine Corps officers' Mameluke swordresembles those used by the Mamluks
Dynasties founded by Mamluks
- Tulunids (868–905)
- Ikhshidids(935–969)
- Ghaznavids (977–1186)
- Khwarazmian dynasty(1077–1231)
- Mamluk dynasty (Delhi) (1206–1290)
- Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)(1250–1517)
- Bahri dynasty(1250–1382)
- Burji dynasty(1382–1517)
- Mamluk dynasty (Iraq) (1704–1831)
See also
- Black Guard
- Janissary
- Jerusalem in the Mamluk period
- Mamluk carpets
- Mamluk architecture
- Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard
- Saqaliba
- Sultan of Egypt
Notes
- ^ David Ayalon uses the term "Mamluk" to refer to military slaves in Egypt and Syria, and "Ghulam" (sing. of "Ghilman") to refer to military slaves elsewhere in the Muslim world. For further informations, see:
- ISBN 978-90-04-07026-4.
ISBN 978-90-04-08112-3.
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Further reading
- Abu-Lughod, Janet L. (1991). Before European hegemony: the world system A.D. 1250–1350. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 978-0-19-506774-3.
- Allouche, A. (1994). Mamluk Economics: A Study and Translation of Al-Maqrizi's Ighathat. Salt Lake City
- Amitai, Reuven (2017). "Post-Crusader Acre in Light of a Mamluk Inscription and a Fatwā Document from Damascus". In Ben-Assat, Yuval (ed.). Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History: Essays in Honor of Amalia Levanoni. Islamic History and Civilization. Vol. 143. S2CID 193093583.
- Amitai, Reuven (1995). Mongols and Mamluks: the Mamluk-Īlkhānid War, 1260–1281. Cambridge University Press. ]
- Blaydes, Lisa, and Eric Chaney. "The feudal revolution and Europe's rise: Political divergence of the Christian west and the Muslim world before 1500 CE." American Political Science Review 107.1 (2013): 16–34. online
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External links
- Mamluk Studies Resources from the Chicago Online Bibliography of Mamluk Studies and the Chicago Online Encyclopedia of Mamluk Studies Review, at the University of Chicago
- The Mamluks at BBC's In Our Time
- Quran Carpet Page; al-Fatihah from a 14th-century Mamluk Quran at the World Digital Library