Mamluk

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A mamluk, also transliterated mameluk, mameluke, mamaluke, or mamluke, was a slave soldier who converted to Islam and served the Muslim caliphs and the Ayyubid sultans during the Crusades and Middle Ages. Over time, they became a powerful military caste, and on more than one occasion they seized power for themselves.

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