Lexicographical Neighbors of Mamluks
Literary usage of Mamluks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Egypt by Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Joseph Grafton Milne, Stanley Lane-Poole, William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1901)
"... dynasties that had risen from the same condition- Nur-ed-din and Saladin were
surrounded by choice companies of mamluks, brought up with peculiar care, ..."
2. The History of India: The Hindú and Mahometan Periods by Mountstuart Elphinstone, Edward Byles Cowell (1866)
"The mamluks, however, continued to send squadrons to the Indian seas, a practice
which was imitated by the Turks after their conquest of Egypt. ..."
3. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria by Gaston Maspero (1904)
"... rise to power : Massacre of the mamluks : Invasion of the Morea : Battle of
Navarino : Struggle with the Porte : Abbas Pasha, Muhammed Said, ..."
4. Cairo: Sketches of Its History, Monuments, and Social Life by Stanley Lane-Poole (1898)
"... within which is the passage where the massacre of the last descendants of the
mamluks by Mohammed 'Aly took place in 1811, is an eighteenth-century work ..."
5. The Travels of Ludovico Di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and by Lodovico de Varthema, John Winter Jones, George Percy Badger (1863)
"... that a profession of Islamism was exacted as a necessary condition of his
enrolment among the mamluks. Whether on assuming the new name of Yunas, ..."
6. The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year by Ibrahim-Hilmy (1888)
"See mamluks. MEMNON. Statue of Memnon at Thebes. Quarterly Review, vol. 138, p.
529 ; Living Age, vol. 125, p. 475. MÉMOIRES. Mémoires sur l'Egypte, ..."
7. Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798. by William George Browne (1799)
"mamluks—Birth, education, drefs, arms, pay—Efti- mate of their military jkill—Power
and revenue of the Beys— The ..."
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