Slaves and Slave-Soldiers in Medieval Islam:

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1. Ayalon, David. "The Military Reforms of Caliph al-Mu`tasim: their Background and Consequences," Mimeograph, Jerusalem, 1963.
2. ________. "Mamlukiyyat," JSAI 2(1980): 321-341.
3. ________. "Studies in the Structure of the Mamluk Army," BSOAS 15(1953): 203-228; and448-476; 16(1954): 57-90.
4. ________. Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Kingdom. London: 1956.
5. _________. Studies in the Mamluks of Egypt. London: 1977.
6. ________. Mamluk Military Society. London: 1979.
7. Faris, N. A. and R. P. Elmer. Arab Archery: A Late 15th cent. treatise on archery. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1945.
8. Forand, P. G. " The Relation of the Slave and Client to the Master and Patron in Medieval Islam," IJMES 2 (1971): 59-66.
9. Glubb, John. Soldiers of Fortune: The Story of the Mamluks. Dorchester: 1988.
10. Goitein, S. D. "Slaves and Slave Girls in the Cairo Geniza Records," Arabica 9 (1962):1-20.
11. Gibb, "The Armies of Saladin," Studies on the Civilization of Islam. Edited by Shaw and Polk, London: Routledge and Kegan, 1962.
12. Gibb and Bowen, "The Ruling Institution," Islamic Society and The West. London: O.U.P., 1950.
13. Humphreys, R. S. "The Emergence of the Mamluk Army," Studia Islamica 65(1977):67-99; 66(1977):147-82.
14. Little, D. P. " Six Fourteenth Century Purchase Deeds for slaves from al-Haram al-Sharîf." Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft cxxxi(1981):297-337.
15. ________. "Two Fourteenth Century Court Records from Jerusalem Concerning the Disposition of Slaves by Minors." Arabica xxix (1982):16-49.
16. Mayer, L. A. Saracenic Heraldry. Oxford: 1933.
17. Ménage, V. L. "Devshirme," S.v. 2nd. Ed.Encyclopaedia of Islam.
18. Palmer, J. A. B. "The Origin of the Janissaries," Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 35(1953): 448-481.
19. Pipes, Daniel. Slave Soldiers and Islam. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
20. Smith, J. M. "`Ayn Jalut: Mamluk Success or Mongol Failure?" Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 44:2 (1984).

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