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1. Mamluk Sultanate

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   The Mamluks were professional slave soldiers, typically of Kipchak Turkic, Circassian, or other Eurasian origins, acquired in childhood and trained rigorously for military service. They were organized into ghulām units. The institution was inherited primarily from the Abbasid Caliphate and later adopted extensively by the Ayyubids.
   The foundation of the Sultanate proper is traced to the collapse of the Ayyubid regime in Egypt. Following the death of As-Salih Ayyub in $\text{1250}$ while the Seventh Crusad…