Tag: Carle Vernet
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Louis Debucourt Philibert; CHARGE OF MAMELOUK 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 76
Mamluk is an Arabic designation for slaves. The term is most commonly used to refer to non-muslim slave soldiers and Muslim rulers of slave origin. The most enduring Mamluk realm was the knightly military caste in Egypt in the Middle Ages, which developed from the ranks of slave soldiers. The “mamluk phenomenon”, as David Ayalon dubbed…
Zaidan Gallery 