- 11 May 2018 00:49
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Just never make your slaves into soldiers or you get Mamluks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk_Sultanate_(Cairo)
The mamluk was an "owned slave", distinguished from the garya and ghulam, or household slaves. After thorough training in various fields such as martial arts, court etiquette and Islamic sciences, these slaves were freed. However, they were still expected to remain loyal to their master and serve his household.[22] Mamluks had formed a part of the state or military apparatus in Syria and Egypt since at least the 9th century, during the Tulunid period.[23] Mamluk regiments constituted the backbone of Egypt's military under Ayyubid rule in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, beginning with Sultan Saladin who replaced the Fatimids' African infantry with mamluks.[24] Each Ayyubid sultan and high-ranking emir had a private mamluk corps.[25] Most of the mamluks in the Ayyubids' service were ethnic Kipchak Turks from Central Asia, who, upon entering service, were converted to Sunni Islam and taught Arabic.[24] They were highly committed to their masters, who they often referred to as "father", and were in turn treated more as kinsmen than as slaves by their masters.[24] Sultan as-Salih Ayyub (r. 1240–49), the last of the Ayyubid sultans, had acquired some 1,000 mamluks (some of them free-born) from Syria, Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula by 1229, while serving as na'ib (viceroy) of Egypt during the absence of his father, Sultan al-Kamil. These mamluks became known as the "Salihiyyah" (singular "Salihi").Then they became rulers over Egypt and Levant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk_Sultanate_(Cairo)
Me, well I used to be known as Plaro....