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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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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...
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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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completion of
which they were
either enrolled in one of the
newly created ghilman regiments, or emplo**** in the
royal household. The rest of the m****es of...
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Empire Slave Coast Thirteen colonies Topics and
practice Conscription Ghilman Mamluk Devshirme Blackbirding Coolie Corvée
labor Field slaves in the United...
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swords inspired by
types introduced to the
Middle East by
Central Asian ghilmans.
These swords include the
Persian shamshir (the
origin of the word scimitar)...
