Mamluk

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Society

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Mamluk or mamaluk or mameluke (; Arabic: مملوك, romanized: mamlūk (singular), مماليك, mamālīk (plural); translated as "one who is owned", meaning "slave") were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Mongol, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-soldiers, and freed slaves who were assigned military and administrative duties in the Muslim world.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Mamluk”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Georg Moritz Ebers (1837-1898), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.