Slave Soldiers and Islam_ The Genesis of a Military System - Daniel Pipes

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’Abdallah answered: ’Even if I were

sitting

with 1,000

ghulms,

Iwouldnotwant

you

tobewithfour

ghulzms’ (Zayn,

p.

7).

31. Ar-Rashid b.
    az-Zubayr(5th/llth century):

"The

regu-

larly paid

force

(al-murtaziqa)

of

mawl{zs

during

his

caliphate

numbered70,000"(adh-Dhakhd’ir,

p.

214).

32.

Michael

(1199)

andBar

Hebraeus(1286):"Hefreedathis

death8,000Cabdswhohadbeen

purchased

withsilver.Andhe

left40,000horsesforthe

cavalry,

20,000

baggage

mules,and

30,000Cabdsforthestables"

(3:104 1:140).

33.

A1-Qazwini(682/1283):

"Itissaidthat

[Yah.ya

b.

Aktham,

a

high

officialunderal-Ma’mfin]

9

madeeffortstocollecthand-

some

youths

toserveasmamlzksofthe

caliph

[al-Ma’mfin].He

saidtothem:’Ifnotfor

you

wewouldnotbebelievers.’

"A1-Ma’mfinheardofthisandorderedthat 400 handsome

mamlfzks
goeveryday

tohisdoor;whenhewent

out,they

rodein

hisservicetothe

Caliph’spalace."

"Hisarmies increased

in

size

untilhismamlfzks numbered

70,000"

(Athr

al-Bild,

pp.

318,

385).

34. Ibn
    .Tiqt.aqa(709/1309):
    "al-MuCta.sim

increasedthenum-

bersofmamlfzks"

(al-Fakhff,p.231).

35. Ibn Shakir al-Kutubi (764/1363) and ad-Damiri
    (808/

1405):

"He

had 8,000 mamlfzks" (Fawt al-Wafay{zt, 2:533

H.ayzh, 1:75).

III.

Tln

36. Al-Balawi
    (late

4th/10th

century)

andIbnSaeid

al-Maghribi

(685/1286):

".Tfilfin

wasofthe

Tughuz

Ghuzz.Hewastakento

al-Ma’mfin

by

Nfih.

b. Asad, the

governor

of Bukharaand

Khurasan,

when

Nfi.h

b.

Asadwasin

charge

ofthe

money,raqfqs,

workhorses,etc.,
everyyear.

This

happened

inthe

year

200/

816"
(Srat,p.

33

[Vollersed.,

Weimar,

1895]p.4).

37. Ibn

al-Jawzi

(597/1200):

".Tfilfin

wasTurkish.

Nfih.

b.

Asad,

the

governor

of

Bukhara,senthimtoal-Ma’mfinin

200/

816"

(al-Munta.zim5:71).

9.On

him,

see

Sourdel,pp.238-42.