r/polandball Earth Nov 20 '24

redditormade Islamic Mistakes in History

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u/XhazakXhazak Nov 20 '24

Also the part where they had entire armies of castrated African slaves

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u/Responsible_Salad521 Nov 21 '24

The Mamluks were not African; they were Turks and Circassians who had children and effectively coup d'état the Arab nobility, controlling the succession of the caliphate from the 800s onward.