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The Slave Soldiers Who Became Sultans: Ghilman in the Islamic World
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the ghilman system—enslaved soldiers who rose to become kings and sultans across the medieval Islamic world. From the early Abbasid caliphate under al-Mu'tasim, who built a personal guard of Turkic ghilman in Samarra, to Ahmad ibn Tulun, a ghilman's son who founded Egypt's Tulunid dynasty, and Alp Tegin, a slave commander who seized Ghazna and paved the way for the Ghaznavid Empire. The episode examines how these military slaves were trained, how they gained political power, and the paradox of a slave elite. It also contrasts the ghilman…
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