That terrible feeling when your own mamluks are besieging your palace!
May 18, 2026 at 9:11 PM
That terrible feeling when your own mamluks are besieging your palace!
Frankish nobles watching the Mamluks engage a Mongol army near Ain Jalut in 1260:
I would very much like Egypt to win.
June 15, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Frankish nobles watching the Mamluks engage a Mongol army near Ain Jalut in 1260:
On this day in history, July 31, 1291, the Egyptian Mamluks occupied Acre, expelling the last Crusaders from Palestine.
July 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
On this day in history, July 31, 1291, the Egyptian Mamluks occupied Acre, expelling the last Crusaders from Palestine.
It was an honor to write a text for the upcoming Mamluks exhibition at the Louvre, curated by Carine Juvin
#materialmigrations #mamluks #mamluk #metalwork #africa #louvre #museedulouvre
#materialmigrations #mamluks #mamluk #metalwork #africa #louvre #museedulouvre
April 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It was an honor to write a text for the upcoming Mamluks exhibition at the Louvre, curated by Carine Juvin
#materialmigrations #mamluks #mamluk #metalwork #africa #louvre #museedulouvre
#materialmigrations #mamluks #mamluk #metalwork #africa #louvre #museedulouvre
Anyway that’s how the mamluks overthrew the ayyubids.
August 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Anyway that’s how the mamluks overthrew the ayyubids.
The Mamluks must have been putting in a shift given how many kids they had if they were supposedly castrated.
September 23, 2026 at 8:12 PM
The Mamluks must have been putting in a shift given how many kids they had if they were supposedly castrated.
AI Mamluks is frying me 💀
February 7, 2026 at 7:46 AM
AI Mamluks is frying me 💀
Timurids v Mamluks today
January 28, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Timurids v Mamluks today
The mamluks would never pull this shit
January 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The mamluks would never pull this shit
Royal Mamluks try to stabilise the battle
January 30, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Royal Mamluks try to stabilise the battle
Timurid v Mamluks today
April 28, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Timurid v Mamluks today
German Mamluks.
The Germans had bona fide unfree nobles!
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September 17, 2026 at 1:44 AM
German Mamluks.
Mamluks in Egypt too, who ended up as Sultans (under a figurehead Caliph).
August 17, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Mamluks in Egypt too, who ended up as Sultans (under a figurehead Caliph).
Kharijitbilis are brutish creatures bred for skirmishes and Jihāds, protected at worst by their own bark, and at best by bone-weave armor. If mamluks are charging at you with those, it may be too late to run. 🌙
September 22, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Kharijitbilis are brutish creatures bred for skirmishes and Jihāds, protected at worst by their own bark, and at best by bone-weave armor. If mamluks are charging at you with those, it may be too late to run. 🌙
Mamluks and their socks (in proof only)!
May 24, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Mamluks and their socks (in proof only)!
New Past Lives: Sultan Baybars, Mamluks, and Military Slavery. Baybars ended his life as one of the great warrior kings of the Middle Ages, but his life began as a Kipchak Turk on the steppe of southern Russia. Slavery - military slavery - made him a king. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
www.pod.link
February 4, 2026 at 4:42 PM
New Past Lives: Sultan Baybars, Mamluks, and Military Slavery. Baybars ended his life as one of the great warrior kings of the Middle Ages, but his life began as a Kipchak Turk on the steppe of southern Russia. Slavery - military slavery - made him a king. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
It's here! Everything you never really wanted to know about Mamluks and their socks (and the creation of medievalist identity through modern knitting pattern design)! www.academia.edu/125167738/Au...
October 30, 2024 at 5:57 PM
It's here! Everything you never really wanted to know about Mamluks and their socks (and the creation of medievalist identity through modern knitting pattern design)! www.academia.edu/125167738/Au...
Looking up mamluks for color reference and might have found one of the hardest pictures of all time.
November 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Looking up mamluks for color reference and might have found one of the hardest pictures of all time.
Real historian-grade joke as well ("these limits on mounted troops meant that the Mamluks could not be CAVALIER with their resources")
March 13, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Real historian-grade joke as well ("these limits on mounted troops meant that the Mamluks could not be CAVALIER with their resources")
The caliphate in the 700s, the Mamluks in the 1200s, the Ottomans in the 1500s and the French in 1918.
April 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The caliphate in the 700s, the Mamluks in the 1200s, the Ottomans in the 1500s and the French in 1918.
why did the mamluks intervene to help me as well
September 5, 2026 at 4:57 PM
why did the mamluks intervene to help me as well
Do you reckon that AI Mamluks would be a better or a worse Civ unique than AI Janissaries?
February 7, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Do you reckon that AI Mamluks would be a better or a worse Civ unique than AI Janissaries?
The fact it seems linked to this fantastical project of creating a dystopian techno-feudal future is what bothers me. Implicit in the bougie defense of billionaires is the idea you are only temporarily embarrassed; implicit in the advocacy for AI Mamluks is that you can secure a stake for yourself.
February 7, 2026 at 7:32 AM
The fact it seems linked to this fantastical project of creating a dystopian techno-feudal future is what bothers me. Implicit in the bougie defense of billionaires is the idea you are only temporarily embarrassed; implicit in the advocacy for AI Mamluks is that you can secure a stake for yourself.
It's become pretty clear that what a bunch of these guys want is tech feudalism run by genAI Mamluks
January 18, 2026 at 8:36 AM
It's become pretty clear that what a bunch of these guys want is tech feudalism run by genAI Mamluks