[ANSTHRLD] Name documentation needed

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

> The Arabic word mamluk meant a soldier recruited as a young slave

"Recruited" and "slave" being somewhat antithetical ...
They were specifically non-Muslim boys, converted during
their training.  They were in origin specifically non-
hereditary, I believe.  As in other slave applications,
Circassians were especially favored.

Daniel "Marching through Georgia" de Lincolia
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