HISTORY
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Mamelukes were:
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Islamic missionaries sent into south India.
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Turkish nobles.
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court administrators and diplomats.
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slaves raised to be professional soldiers.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -“The men of the sword” The mamluks were elite slave soldiers who served the Ayyubids. In fact, military slaves formed the backbone and elite of almost all the armies of the Muslim world from the 9th century to the 19th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Mamluk Sultanate was unique among the states we’ve talked about in this series because it was never really ruled by a single dynasty. Rather, it was the self-replication of the Mamluk system (first the predominantly Turkic “Bahri” Mamluks and later the predominantly Circassian “Burji” Mamluks) that ran the state.
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