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The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society - Philipp, Thomas (Editor), and Haarmann, Ulrich (Editor)
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For more than half a millennium the Mamluks - military slaves emanating from the steppes of southern Russia and later from the Caucasus and the Balkans - wielded power over Egypt. During this time they formed a remarkable political, military and economic elite, ruling as sovereigns from 1250 to 1517 and, after the Ottoman conquest of Egypt, regaining much of their former paramountcy under Turkish supremacy. In this collection of essays, Ulrich Haarman and Thomas Philipp have brought together the research of some of the ...

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The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society 2007, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521033060

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The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society 1998, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521591157

Hardcover