Mameluk dynasty
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Throughout the history of the Muslim world there have been a number of Mamluk
dynasties:
Mamluk
A Mamluk was a soldier of slave origin, who were predominantly Cumans/Kipchaks The "mamluk phenomenon", as David Ayalon dubbed the creation of the specific warrior...
dynasties:
- The Mamluk dynasty of Delhi ruled India between 1211 and 1290
- The Mamluk dynasty of Baghdad ruled that city and the surrounding areas until 1832
- There were two Egyptian Mamluk dynastiesMamluk Sultanate (Cairo)The Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt was the final independent Egyptian state prior to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in 1805. It lasted from the overthrow of the Ayyubid Dynasty until the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517. The sultanate's ruling caste was composed of Mamluks, Arabised...
, the Bahri dynastyBahri dynastyThe Bahri dynasty or Bahriyya Mamluks was a Mamluk dynasty of mostly Kipchak Turkic origin that ruled Egypt from 1250 to 1382 when they were succeeded by the Burji dynasty, another group of Mamluks...
from 1250 to 1382 and the Burgi dynasty from 1382 until 1517. Mamluk rule as a vassal of the Ottoman EmpireOttoman EmpireThe Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
continued in Egypt until 1811. See also: History of Ottoman Egypt.