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The Slave Soldiers Who Became Kings: The Ghilman System
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the medieval Islamic institution of the ghilman — enslaved Turkic boys recruited from the Central Asian steppe and trained into elite slave soldiers who often became kingmakers and even sultans in their own right. Starting with the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim and his personal guard, they trace how the practice spread across the Islamic world from Samarra to Cairo to Delhi. They explore the ghulam's training in horsemanship, archery, and statecraft; the tensions between slave soldiers and free-born troops; and the spectacular rise of figures…
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