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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...
- 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...
- 1990s, it was
widely believed that the
earliest Mamluks were
known as
Ghilman or
Ghulam (another
broadly synonymous term for slaves) and were bought...
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Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and
practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée
labour Field slaves in the...
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Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and
practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée
labour Field slaves in the...
- ties with the
ghilmān, the foreign-born "slave-soldiers" that now
provided the
professional mainstay of the
Abbasid army. The
ghilmān were
highly proficient...
- to the
Middle East and India,
where they
composed the main
ethnicity of
ghilman (military slaves) for centuries. In the
early modern age, the contemporaneous...
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Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and
practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée
labour Field slaves in the...
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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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Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and
practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée
labour Field slaves in the...
