mukluk

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Soon the mamluk troops vastly outnumbered the members of the Ayyubid Arab ruling class.

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Many caliphs thus preferred mamluk armies to civilian ones.

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A skilled archer like a mamluk soldier could fire several arrows in the time it took to reload a gun.

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Perhaps his efforts served as inspiration for the mamluk general Izz al-Din Aybak, who led the overthrow of Egypt’s Ayyubid dynasty almost fifty years later.

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At the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260, the mamluk forces that successfully fought off a Mongol army and prevented it from conquering Egypt were armed with an early type of cannon.

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