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Muslim rule generally. The Ottomans had the Janissaries. The Qajars in Persia had the Ghulam. The only one of the Muslim gunpowder empires not to use slave sold
by barry-cotter 4y ago
Muslim rule generally. The Ottomans had the Janissaries. The Qajars in Persia had the Ghulam. The only one of the Muslim gunpowder empires not to use slave soldiers were the Mughals who were ethnically distinct anyway. Persians and some Arabs and Turks ruling over South Asians.
- selimthegrim 4y agoThe previous empires that the Mughals conquered used slave soldiers (Iltutmish, Khilji, Aibak, Lodis)