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Studies on the Structure of the Mamluk Army—II

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David Ayalon
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The term ḥalqa, as a name of a military unit, seems to be mentioned for the first time in 1174, when Tūrānshāh set out, under Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn's orders, on his expedition to the Yemen. This unit is also mentioned a few times during the siege of Acre in 587/1191. The sources do not indicate the date of its founding, and no authoritative explanation of the meaning of its name is available. Two opinions as to the latter may be submitted with all due reservations: Quatremere thinks that the halqa was so called because it was a corps which surrounded the sultan and constituted his bodyguard, and indeed the sources' description of its position and part in combat support the impression that it was composed of the élite of Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn's forces; A. N. Poliak disagrees, and holds that the name is derived from the special tactics the Turkish peoples used to employ in attack, i.e. that of surrounding the enemy in the form of a ring (ḥalqa). Poliak supports his view by alluding to the frequent recurrence of these tactics in the combat manoeuvres described in the furūsīya literature and in the hunting expeditions which the Ayyubid and Mamluk sultans frequently organized. In the present state of our knowledge, both explanations must be viewed as hypothetical, since no data are available to support either the one or the other; the writer inclines to favour Quatremere's view.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , October 1953 , pp. 448 - 476
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page 458 note 7 For material on the asyād and their status in the Mamluk kingdom, see Sulūk, ii, p. 490Google Scholar, 1. 13. Nujūm (P), v, pp. 216–17Google Scholar; p. 228, 11. 18–19; p. 229, 1. 3; p. 282, 1. 3; p. 320, 1. 21; p. 397, 11. 15–17; p. 505, 1. 12; vi, p. 266, 11. 2–3; p. 432, 11. 5–7; p. 514, 11. 7–8; p. 545, 11. 8–9; p. 772; vii, p. 320, 1. 1; p. 426, 1. 1; pp. 508–9; p. 511; p. 644, 11. 1–8; pp. 664–5; p. 678, 11. 8–9. Ḥawādith, p. 149Google Scholar, 1. 1; p. 305. al-Furāt, Ibn, ix, p. 56Google Scholar, 11. 15–18; p. 91,11. 18–21; p. 176, I. 21. Iyās, Ibn, ii, p. 15Google Scholar, 11. 1–2; p. 60, 1. 4; p. 79; p. 108, 1. 1; p. 113, 11. 6–10; iii, p. 188, 11. 10–12; p. 195, 1. 12; iv, p. 9, 1. 7; p. 399, 11. 15–23; p. 406, 1. 9. Ḍaw', iii, p. 53Google Scholar, 11. 8–10; p. 87, 11. 6–7; p. 124, U. 2–3; p. 201; p. 217; vi, p. 73; vii, p. 274. Zubda, p. 111Google Scholar, 11. 5–12. Ṣubḥ, xiii, p. 167Google Scholar, 11. 16–19. One of the surprising facts connected with the Circassians is that even the later rulers, who were well aware of the fate met by sultans' sons who were appointed to the sultanate by their fathers, grew no wiser from experience and followed the same policy, knowing full well that then own sons would be deposed. This fact arouses the amazement of Ibn Taghrībirdī, who can find no explanation for it. He says in one passage: ‘We have seen the same retribution meted out time and again from the day when Barqūq deposed al-Manṣūr Ḥājjī down to our own day. All are made to drink the same cup by the atābak, and the beverage contained therein is prepared by the mamlukg of their fathers. This matter has already been discussed by us in many places, but silence is more fitting’ (Nujūm (P), vii, p. 419Google Scholar, 11. 2–6). Elsewhere, he states that he fails to understand why the sultan appoints his son as successor at the last minute, knowing as he does with certainty that his son will be dealt with as he himself dealt with the son of the previous sultan (Nujūm (P), vii, p. 394Google Scholar, 11. 9–13. See also Nujūm (P), v, pp. 228–230Google Scholar; vii, pp. 394–6. Ḥawādith, p. 134, 11. 1–2).Google Scholar

page 459 note 1 Ḍaw' aṣ-Ṣubḥ, p. 265Google Scholar, 1. 15. ṢubṢ, iv, p. 24Google Scholar, 11. 6–16; p. 63, 11. 11–12; p. 64, 11. 3–9. 11. 9–15.

page 459 note 2 Zubda, p. 134Google Scholar, 11. 11–13.

page 459 note 3 Nujūm (C), viii, p. 261Google Scholar, 1. 11. Nujum (P), v, p. 229,1. 4.Google Scholar

page 459 note 4 See, for instance, Zetterstéen, , p. 132Google Scholar, 11. 3–6; p. 163, 1. 21; p. 168, 1. 23; p. 170, 1. 8; p. 177,1. 1. Sulūk, ii, p. 176,11. 6–7.Google Scholar

page 460 note 1 Khiṭaṭ, ii, p. 216Google Scholar, 11. l–4, 11. 13–14. Ṣubḥ, iv, p. 62Google Scholar, 11. 12–16. Kathir, Ibn, xiv, p. 318Google Scholar,11. 15–17.

In connexion with the repartition of fief incomes between the amir and his mamluks, in the proportion of two-thirds to one-third, it is interesting to note that Amir Qalamṭāy aẓ-Ẓāhirī Barqūq willed one-third of his possessions to his freed mamluks and his freed slave-women (Manhal, v, fol. 34a, 11. 18–19).Google Scholar

page 460 note 2 Iyās, Ibn, ii, p. 62Google Scholar, 1. 12. Ḍaw', iii, p. 36Google Scholar; p. 276, 1. 12; p. 284, 1. 13.

page 460 note 3 Nujūm (P), vii, p. 581Google Scholar, 11. 17–18; p. 597, 11. 18–19; p. 616, 11. 3–5; p. 772, 1. 1; p. 798, notes. Ḍaw' iii, p. 36Google Scholar; p. 276, 1. 12; p. 284, 1. 3; x, p. 205, 1. 28. Al-abwāb as-sulṭanīya are called in the sources also al-abw¯b ash-sharīfa or al-abwāb al-'āliya (al-Fidā, Abū', iv, p. 62Google Scholar, 11. 13–14; p. 79, 1. 3; p. 96, 1. 27. Iyās, Ibn, iv, p. 46Google Scholar, 1. 5; p. 119, 1. 14; p. 130,1. 21. Ṣubḥ, iv, p. 60Google Scholar, 11. 18–20). The houses of the amirs were also called al-buyūt al-karīma (Ṣubḥ, iv, p. 60Google Scholar, 11. 18–20).

page 460 note 4 cf. Iyās, Ibn, ii, p. 218.Google Scholar

page 460 note 5 Khaldūn, Ibn, v, p. 472Google Scholar, 1. 19. Only additional data will make it possible to reach more definite conclusions on this point.

page 460 note 6 Nujūm (P), vi, p. 478, 11. 6–11.Google Scholar

page 460 note 7 See, for instance, Manhal, ii, fol. 61a, 11. 17–21.Google ScholarAn-Nahj as-Sadīd (in Patrologia Orientalis), xiv, p. 535Google Scholar, 11. 2–4. cf. also section on the sayfīya in this chapter.

page 460 note 8 Zetterstéen, , p. 132Google Scholar, 11. 3–6.

page 461 note 1 Nujūm (P), v, p. 219, 11. 19–20.Google Scholar

page 461 note 2 Khiṭaṭ, i, pp. 87, 1. 37–88, 1. 3.Google Scholar

page 461 note 3 Manhal, iii, fol. 132b, 11. 4–17.Google Scholar For additional information on this amir and his peculiar ways see Ḍaw', iii, pp. 277Google Scholar, 1. 13–278, 1. 15.

page 461 note 4 For rank, cf. Quatremère, , vol. ii, part i, p. 14Google Scholar; p. 15. Heraldry, p. 5Google Scholar; p. 26, p. 34, n. 4. Glossary to Nujūm, vol. v, p. xxvi.Google Scholar

page 462 note 1 Ṣubḥ, iv, pp. 60Google Scholar, 1. 11–63, 1. 3; p. 61, 11. 12–15; pp. 61, 1. 20–62, 1. 5. Ḍaw' aḌ Ṣubḥ pp. 264–5.Google Scholar cf. La Syrie, p. ciii.Google Scholar

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page 463 note 1 Nujūm (P), vi, pp. 442–3.Google ScholarManhal, viii, fol. 390b, 11. 6–9.Google Scholar For the expenses of other amirs, see Khiṭaṭ, ii, p. 169Google Scholar, 11. 27–30. Manhal, ii, fol. 412, 11. 8–9.Google Scholar

page 463 note 2 Manhal, viii, fol. 367b, 11. 13–15.Google Scholar

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page 463 note 8 Manhal, ii, fol. 33a, 11. 16–17.Google Scholar

page 463 note 9 Manhal, ii, fol. 33b, 11. 4–5.Google Scholar In another passage, the same historian reports that the mamluks owned by Taghrībirdī exceeded 300 (Nujūm (P), vi, p. 141Google Scholar, 11. 5–6), and that when he served as governor of Damascus, their number reached 970 (Manhal, ii, fol. 125b).Google Scholar

page 463 note 10 Ḥawādith, p. 659Google Scholar, 11. 17–18. This statement of Ibn Taghrībirdī should not, of course, be taken at its face value, but it contains undoubtedly a substantial grain of truth.

page 463 note 11 The historians of the Circassian period call the sultans of the first Mamluk period mulūk as-salaf or al-mulūk as-sālifa. To them they attribute all noble virtues, and set them in contrast to the sultans of their own day.

page 463 note 12 Ḥawādith, pp. 566, 1. 20–567Google Scholar, 1. 1. The term mulūk referred not only to sultans, but also to important amirs, cf. for instance, Nujūm (P), v, p. 611Google Scholar, 11. 10–13.

page 464 note 1 Ḥawādith, p. 142, 11. 17–18Google Scholar. Amir Baraka had an ustādār who was an Amir of a Thousand, ‘an unheard-of thing’ (Nujūm (P), v, p. 311, 11. 5–8).Google Scholar

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page 464 note 7 See now Gibb, op. cit.

page 464 note 8 The tulb was the military unit which the sultan or amir would lead during the military expedition, or during processions and parades. Al-Maqrīzī, (Khiṭaṭ, i, p. 86)Google Scholar alone among Mamluk sources defines this term, but his definition is unsuited to the actual usage of the term during the Mamluk period, cf. Quatremère, , vol. i, part i, pp. 34–5Google Scholar; part ii, pp. 271–2. Glossary to Nujūm, vol. vi, p. xxxixGoogle Scholar. Gibb, , op. cit., pp. 308–9.Google Scholar

page 465 note 1 Khiṭaṭ, i, p. 86, 11. 26–34Google Scholar. Gibb, , op. cit., p. 309, n. 31Google Scholar. The whole question of the ṭawāshiya in ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn's army is comprehensively dealt with by Gibb.

page 465 note 2 Khiṭaṭ, i, p. 86, 11. 34–9Google Scholar; p. 87, 1. 1. The same list appears in Sulūk, i, p. 75, 11. 3–7Google Scholar, but is much more corrupt than that given in Khiṭaṭ. Both should be read together in order to obtain a correct picture. On the kinānīya (as well as kitāmīya?) mentioned together with the ṭawāshiya in the above list, see also Nujūm (C), vi, p. 17Google Scholar. Sulūk, i, p. 150, 1. 12Google Scholar. For the etymology of the term ṭawāshī, see Blochet, 's view (Patrologia Orientalis, xii, p. 494, n. 4).Google Scholar

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page 466 note 1 To put it in other words: if the ṭawāshiya are mamluks this means that Ṣalāh ad-Dīn had by far a greater number of mamluks than Najrn ad-Dīn as-ḥaliḥ Ayyūb, the founder of the Baḥrīya regiment, from which the Mamluk kingdom sprang up (see below, p. 474). The writer did not succeed in establishing the connexion between the ṭawāshiya and the ḥalqa, under Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn.

page 466 note 2 Feudalism, p. 3, n. 4Google Scholar. The whole question concerning the term' amirs' horsemen' is discussed in pp. 471–5.

page 466 note 3 al-Manṣūrī, Baybars, Zubdat al-Fikra, fol. 157a, 1. 17.Google Scholar

page 466 note 4 Ibid., fol. 158a, 11. 6–7.

page 466 note 5 Aẓ-Ẓahir, Muḥyi ad-Dīn ibn ‘Abd, Sīrat aẓ-Ẓahir Baybars, B.M. MS., Add. 23, 331, fol. 41a, 11. 3–5.Google Scholar

page 466 note 6 Ibid., fol. 41b, 11. 15–17. See another interesting example: ibid., fol. 42a, 11. 7–9.

page 466 note 7 Ta'rīkh Bayrūt, pp. 96–98Google Scholar. cf. also p. 79, 11. 6–10; p. 89, 1. 11, 1. 14; pp. 92–4.

page 466 note 8 cf. references cited in the preceding note, as well as some of those given by Poliak, Feudalism, p. 3; R.E.I., 1935, p. 247, n. 4.Google Scholar

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page 467 note 5 Thus: ‘wa-lam yahṣul li-Lājīn hādhā imrat ‘ashara, wa-māta wa-huwa jundī’ (Manhal, v, fol. 56a, 11. 20–1)Google Scholar; cf. also: Zetterstéen, , p. 199, 1. 12Google Scholar. Ṣubḥ, iv, p. 63, 1. 11Google Scholar. Faw7amacr;t al-Wafayāt, i, p. 99Google Scholar. Manhal, i, fol. 195b, 1. 1Google Scholar; fol. 196b, 11. 6–7; iii, fol. 18a, 11. 19–20. That jundīya referred to the rank of private may be inferred from the following examples: wa-intaqala Barqūq min al-jundīya ilā imrat ṭablkhāna daf'atan wāḥidalan (Manhal, ii, fol. 61a, 11. 21–2)Google Scholar and ‘wa-ṭālat ayyāmuhu fī al-jundīya ilā an ta'ammara ‘ashara’ (Manhal, v, fol. 16a, 11. 3–4)Google Scholar; cf. also Zetterstéen, , p. 101Google Scholar. Nujūm (C), ix, p. 297Google Scholar. al-Furāt, Ibn, ix, p. 100Google Scholar, 11. 17–18; p. 319, 11. 8–9; p. 325, 1. 2; p. 419, 11. 4–5. Nujūm (P), v, p. 304, 1. 19Google Scholar; pp. 332–3; p. 450, 11. 12–16; p. 575, 11. 20–2; vi, p. 536, 1. 20; p. 675, 1. 15; vii, p. 301, 1. 5. Manhal, ii, fol. 176b, 11. 11–12Google Scholar; viii, fol. 420b, 11. 14–15. Shuhba, Ibn Qāḍī, fol. 73b, 11. 3–4; fol. 78b, 1. 13Google Scholar. Durar, i, p. 216, 11. 1–2Google Scholar; p. 514, 1. 11. Ḍaw', iii, p. 60, 1. 26Google Scholar; vi, p. 215, 1. 22. We may point out here that jundī and jundīya, meaning ‘private soldier’ and ‘rank of private’ respectively, ought not to be confused with ajnād, meaning, as stated above, ‘soldiers of the ḥalqa’. For the term jundī, cf. C.I.A., ‘L'Égypte,’ p. 544Google Scholar. La Syrie, pp. xxxiv–vGoogle Scholar. Heraldry, p. 5Google Scholar. Glossary to Ḥawādith, p. xxv.Google Scholar

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page 468 note 8 Ḍaw', vi, p. 218, 1. 14.Google Scholar

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page 468 note 11 This description is based on the material cited in note 6, p. 467, above; cf. also Ḍaw' aṣ-Ṣubḥ, p. 244, 11. 23–4.Google Scholar

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page 470 note 1 Zubda, p. 113.Google Scholar

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page 471 note 8 al-Manṣūrī, Baybars, fol. 99a, 11. 7–10Google Scholar; 99b, 1. 13–100a, 1. 4; 114a, 11. 6–7; 122a, 1. 13; 183a, 11. 7–8; 245a, 11. 8–9, 11. 15–16; 259b, 11. 7–8.

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page 472 note 2 Kathīr, Ibn, xiii, p. 309, 1. 18Google Scholar. Zetterstéen, , p. 224,11. 19–20Google Scholar. al-Fidā', Abū, iv, p. 29, 11. 24–5Google Scholar. Sulūk, i, p. 735, 11. 5–6Google Scholar. In Sulūk (ed. Ziada) we encounter, as early as the days of Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn, a sentence such as the following: ‘umarā’ mi'a ahada ‘ashara’, which, if taken at face value, might lead us to conclude that the office of amīr mi'a was already in existence at that early period. Such a conclusion would, however, be erroneous, for the text is here corrupt, and ought to read: ‘umarā'—mi'a wa-aḥada ‘ashara’. This has already been pointed out in this chapter, in connexion with the ṭawāshiya. As early as the year 680, the term amīr mi'a muqaddam alf (al-Furāt, Ibu, vii, p. 238, 1. 14)Google Scholar is encountered. We find, in the early Mamluk period, the following expressions which do not seem to recur during the later period: amīr bi-ṭablkhāna (Zetterstéen, , p. 46, 1. 17; p. 101, 1. 14; p. 166, 1. 25)Google Scholar; rakiba li-imrat ṭablkhāna (Zetterstéen, , p. 201, 1. 5, 1. 7Google Scholar; p. 202, 1. 21; p. 206, 1. 1, 1. 10; p. 214, 1. 24). In the year 661 we find the following: ‘wa-a'ṭā al-'Azīza ibn al-Malik al-Mughīth imrat mi'at fāris m-khala'a ‘alayhi wa-a'ṭāhu ṭablkhāna’ (Sulūk, i, p. 493, 11. 2–3)Google Scholar. Must we conclude from the above quotation that at that period the identity of Amir of Forty with Amir of Ṭablkhāna was not yet firmly fixed ? Ibn Taghrībirdī tends, indeed, to assume that the title of Amir of Ṭablkhāna was granted at the beginning of the Mamluk period to an Amir of a Thousand as well, since the ṭablkhāna played at his gate as well as at the gate of Amirs of Forty (Manhal, iii, fols. 181b, 1. 23–182a, 1. 8)Google Scholar. See, in this connexion, the interesting passage in aẓ-Ẓāhir, Ibn ‘Abd, fol. 57a, 11. 3–8Google Scholar. cf. also Manhal, ii, fol. 17a, 11. 1–6Google Scholar; v, fol. 12a, 11. 1–4. Nujūm (C), ix, p. 287, 11. 4–10, and references in n. 8, p. 471.Google Scholar

page 473 note 1 See references listed in n. 6, p. 467, above. When later sources copy from earlier ones they use, of course, the word fāris (horseman).

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page 474 note 1 The rise, decline, and disappearance of this regiment which played such a decisive role in wiping out the Ayyubid kingdom and in establishing the Mamluk kingdom in its stead is discussed by the present writer in ‘Le Régiment Baḥrīya dans ‘Armée Mamelouk’ (R.E.I., 1952, pp. 133–141)Google Scholar. We shall here only allude to a most interesting passage in Khaldūn'a, IbnKitāb al-'Ibar (vol. v, pp. 371, 1. 27–372, 1. 8)Google Scholar which stresses that though mamluks were bought by the Ayyubids in considerable quantities from the days of Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn onwards, it was as-Ṣālih Najm ad-Dīn Ayyūb who by far surpassed all his predecessors in this respect. This passage also mentions a very important factor which greatly facilitated the buying of mamluks on a grand scale by Najm ad-Dīn Ayyūb, viz. the attack of the Tatars on the steppes lying to their north-west (al-jānib al-gharbī min nāḥiyat ash-shimāl) which uprooted the Kipchakis, Russians, Alans, and others, many of whom were sold as slaves. This statement of Ibn Khaldūn is confirmed by Ibn Duqmāq, who says in his description of the rise of the Mamluk kingdom (ibtidā' ad-dawla ashsharīfa at-turkīya) that God has expelled them (the mamluks) from their vast and spacious countries of origin, and led them to Egypt, by a wisdom which is beyond the comprehension of man. God has decreed the appearance of the Tatars and their conquest of the eastern and northern countries (al-bilād al-mashrigīya wash-shimālīya), and their attacks on the Kipchakis. The Tatars killed the Kipchakis and captured and sold their offspring. These were carried by the merchants to far-off places (ilā al-āfāq), and when aṣ-Ṣalih Najm ad-Dīn Ayyūb became king he bought about a thousand mamluks (al-jawhar ath-thamīn fī ta'rīkh al-khulafā' was-salāṭīn, Oxford MS., Pocock, 352, fol. 35b, 11. 14–21)Google Scholar. Such ideal conditions for buying mamluks existed only at the end of the Ayyubid reign, and this was one of Najm ad-Dīn's greatest advantages over his predecessors. It is worth while to note here, in passing, that the very inception of the Mamluk kingdom is thus closely connected with the Mongols and their invasions.

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page 475 note 2 In Qalāūn's time cases of accelerated promotion were still very infrequent, for this sultan was usually very slow and careful in promoting his amirs (Baybars al-Manṣūrī, fols. 99b, 1. 13–100a, 1. 4).

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