Mamluk

See also: mamluk

English

Noun

Mamluk (plural Mamluks)

1. Alternative form of Mameluke
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, “Islam: The Great Realignment (622–1500)”, in A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 278:

     The Mamluks, who seized power in Egypt in 1250, were a caste of men captured for military service, so they drew their identity from their defence of Islam against its enemies.