Mamluk
Mamluk ( ar, مملوك, mamlūk (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural), translated as "one who is owned", meaning " slave", also transliterated as ''Mameluke'', ''mamluq'', ''mamluke'', ''mameluk'', ''mameluke'', ''mamaluke'', or ''marmeluke'') ...
is a social institution in the Islamic world before the nineteenth century.
Mamluk, Mameluke, or Mamaluke may refer to:
Mamluk states and culture
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Mamluk Sultanate, a state that ruled Egypt and Syria from the 13th through the early 16th centuries
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Mamluk dynasty (Delhi)
The Mamluk dynasty ( fa, سلطنت مملوک, Salṭanat Mamlūk) was founded in Northern India by Qutb ud-Din Aibak, a Turkic Mamluk slave-general of the Ghurid Empire from Central Asia. The Mamluk dynasty ruled from 1206 to 1290; it was th ...
, a state in northern India in the 13th century
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Mamluk dynasty (Iraq)
The Mamluk dynasty of Mesopotamia ( ar, مماليك العراق, Mamālīk al-ʻIrāq) was a dynasty of Georgians, Georgian Mamluk origin which ruled over Iraq in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
In the Ottoman Empire, Mamluks were freed sl ...
in the 18th and 19th centuries
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Mamluk-Kipchak language
Mamluk-Kipchak language was a Kipchak language that was spoken in Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Sultanate period. Since most of the Mamluk rulers were monolingual Turkic speakers, several dictionaries were complied to enable communication betw ...
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Mamluk architecture
Mamluk architecture was the architectural style under the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), which ruled over Egypt, the Levant, and the Hijaz from their capital, Cairo. Despite their often tumultuous internal politics, the Mamluk sultans were proli ...
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Mamluk carpets
Many studies have been conducted on Mamluk carpets, but scholars have not come to a consensus as to when or where they were made. Production of surviving Mamluk carpets started from the second half of the fifteenth century until the middle of the ...
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Mamluk playing cards
Other
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Mameluke (American horse) (foaled 1948), an American racehorse
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Mameluke (British horse)
Mameluke (1824 – 1849) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from April 1827 to October 1829 he ran thirteen times and won seven races. Unraced as a two-year-old, he proved himself to be one of the best col ...
(1824–1849), a British racehorse
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Mameluke sword, used by the United States Marine Corps and formerly by the British Army
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Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard, a cavalry unit of Napoleon's Imperial Guard
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Mamluk Ali Nanautawi
Mamluk Ali Nanautawi (also written as Mamluk al-Ali Nanautawi) (1789–7 October 1851) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar who served as the Head Teacher of Arabic language at the Zakir Husain Delhi College. His notable students include Muhammad Q ...
(1789–1851), Indian Muslim scholar
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The Mamalukes, a professional wrestling tag team
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Tony Mamaluke (born 1977), the ring name of American professional wrestler Charles Spencer
See also
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