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The Knights of Islam – The Wars Of The Mamluks by James Waterson

From the seventh century through to the middle ages the Mamluks were the greatest body of fighting men in the world and the quintessence of the mounted warrior. They were slave soldiers, imported as boys into the Islamic Empire from the pagan Steppes, but they became its saviour, defeating the Mongols and forming the machine of jihad that destroyed the Crusader kingdoms of Palestine and Syria. After bloodily seizing power from their masters, the descendants of Saladin, they developed a martial code and an honour system based on barracks brotherhood. Their story embraces many of the great themes of medieval military endeavour: the Crusaders and the deadly contest between Islam and Christendom, the Mongols and their vision of world dominion, Tamerlane and the rise of the Ottoman Empire whose own slave soldiers, the Janissaries, would be the Mamluks final nemesis.

Features;

• Publisher Greenhill Books, London; 2007
• Black Cloth Hardback, 304 pp
• With colour & b/w plates
• Size 220 x 140mm, 700g
• ISBN 978 1 85367 734 2

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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