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Ghilman (singular Arabic: غُلاَم ghulām,
plural غِلْمَان
ghilmān) were slave-soldiers and/or
mercenaries in
armies throughout the
Islamic world. Islamic...
- 1990s, it was
widely believed that the
earliest Mamluks were
known as
Ghilman or
Ghulam (another
broadly synonymous term for slaves) and were bought...
- to a
lesser extent,
Mughal empires,
though more
commonly with the word
Ghilman,
which is the
plural form of ghulam. It is
traditionally used as the first...
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swords inspired by
types introduced to the
Middle East by
Central Asian ghilmans.
These swords include the
Persian shamshir, the Arab saif, the
Indian talwar...
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power however, had come to lie with the
elite Turkish slave-soldiers (
ghilmān) and with Ahmad's own father, Talha, who, as the Caliphate's main military...
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Topics and
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labour Drapetomania Dysaesthesia aethiopica Field...
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Daylamite slave-soldiers (
ghilmān). The
adoption of the
ghilmān system had far-reaching repercussions, as the
Turkic ghilmān rapidly ****umed
senior positions...
- ties with the
ghilmān, the foreign-born "slave-soldiers" that now
provided the
professional mainstay of the
Abbasid army. The
ghilmān were
highly proficient...
- needed] The
Seljuk palaces, as well as
their armies, were
staffed with
ghilmān (Arabic: غِلْمَان),
singular ghulam), slave-soldiers
taken as children...
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Middle Eastern civilizations through their shared Islamic faith.
Turkic Ghilman slave-soldiers
serving under the
Umayyad and
Abbasid Caliphates introduced...
