Appendix
5
209
Turknamed
H.
ammd;al-Mahdi
hadanother,namedMubfirak.
HenceforththeTurkscontinuedtoincreaseinnumbers,
and
eventuallythey
overpowered theAbbasids,
aswehavemen-
tioned.Obeisance[totheirmasters]
kept
themfrom
taking
over
theruleearlier.Theytook
overatthedeathof
al-Wtthiq
on
[the
strength
oftheir]increasedsizein
al-MuCtas.im’s
andhis
reigns"
(Shar.h
Qo4.
dat,p.285).
18.
Yfiqfit(626/1229):
"Thearmiesof
al-MuCtas.im
increased
untilhisTurkish
mamlfzksreached
70,000
innumber"
(Mujam
al-Buldfzn,3:16).
- Ibn
Dih.
yfi(634/1237):
"His
possessions
expandedgreatly
untilhehad70,000
maml(zks
andas
many
free[soldiers]"(an-
Nibr6s,
p.65).
20.
An-Nuwayri
(731/1332):
al-Ma’mfin"wasthefirsttotake
Turksinhisservice.
Heraisedtheir
price,paying
forone
of
them
100,000
or200,000dirhams.
’’5
- Ibn Kathir(774/1373):
"al-MuCtas.im
employed
alarge
body
of
Turks,nearly
20,000ofthem.Heownedwar
materiel
andmounts
suchasnooneelsehad"
(al-Bidya,
10:296).
- IbnKhaldfin(808/1406):"Mawlfzsofdynasties..,acquire
nobilitybybeingfirmly
rootedintheir
wal(g
relationship,by
theirserviceto
a
particulardynasty,
and
byhaving
a
large
num-
ber ofancestorswhohadbeenunderthe
protection
of
(that
dynasty).
For
example,
theTurkishmawlSsof
theAbbasids
thusachieved’house’andnobilityandcreatedglory
and
impor-
tanceforthemselvesby
being
firmly
rootedintheir
relationship
tothe(Abbasid)dynasty."
"The
groupfeeling(eas..atn-ya)
oftheArabians
hadbeende-
stroyedby
thetimeofthe
reigns
of
al-MuCta.sim
andhissonal-
Wthiq.
TheAbbasidstriedtomaintainaholdoverthe
govern-
mentwiththe
help
ofPersian,Turkish,Daylami,Saljfiq,
and
other
maw/s.
"TheAbbasidsafteral-Mutas.im..,
remained
caliphs
inname
becauseArabiangroupfeeling
continuedtoexist
Caliphate
androyalauthority[initially]
existedinthesame
person;
then,
5.Quoted
inaneditor’s
footnoteonKB,
p.
255.