Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Kingdom: A Challenge to Medieval Society (1956)

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Summary

This study of firearms analyzes the employment of such weaponry, dated more than 40 years after use in Europe, towards the close of the 1360s.

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The early use of firearms in the Mamluk kingdom
terms used for firearms and gunpowder in contemporary sources - why firearms were called ""naft"", the ""mukhula"" and the ""midfa"", the cannon and the ""manjaniq""
the attitude of Mamluk military society toward the use of firearms - firearms in the last decades of Mamluk rule, the casting of cannon under al-Ghawri, the renewal of traditional military training and of ""furusiya"" exercises, the creation of a unit of arquebusiers, the black slaves as arquebusiers, the
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