Faris Saracen Reenactment Blog

Mamluk Askari is a NON - COMMERCIAL Page for all those interested in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt , Palestine and Syria in the Time of 1250 - 1517. Focus on my Personal Performance is the 13.cent, as Mamluk Amir Faris al Din Muhammad Ali and I will share my attempts and progress with all Interested.
Intro:
The Mamluk Sultanate (Arabic: سلطنة المماليك‎‎ Salṭanat al-Mamālīk) was a medieval realm spanning Egypt, the Levant (North Africa), and Hejaz (The Hejaz, also Al-Hijaz (Arabic: اَلْـحِـجَـاز‎‎, al-Ḥiǧāz, literally "the Barrier"), is a region in the west of present-day Saudi Arabia). It lasted from the overthrow of the Ayyubid dynasty until the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517. Historians have traditionally broken the era of Mamlūk rule into two periods—one covering 1250–1382, the other, 1382–1517. Western historians call the former the "Baḥrī" period and the latter the "Burjī" due to the political dominance of the regimes known by these names during the respective eras. Contemporary Muslim historians refer to the same divisions as the "Turkish" and "Circassian" periods in order to stress the change in the ethnic origins of the majority of Mamlūks.
The Mamlūk state reached its height under Turkic rule with Arabic culture and then fell into a prolonged phase of decline under the Circassians (Adyghe).The sultanate's ruling caste was composed of Mamluks, soldiers of predominantly Cuman-Kipchaks (from Crimea), Circassian, Abkhazian, Oghuz Turks and Georgian slave origin. While Mamluks were purchased, their status was above ordinary slaves, who were not allowed to carry weapons or perform certain tasks. Mamluks were considered to be "true lords", with social status above citizens of Egypt. Though it declined towards the end of its existence, at its height the sultanate represented the zenith of medieval Egyptian and Levantine political, economic, and cultural glory in the Islamic era