Janissaries - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Janissaries - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Ágoston, Gábor

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062337
Doc. NO	:	ALei2734
Main Entry	:	Ágoston, Gábor
Title & Author	:	Janissaries - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Ágoston, Gábor
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,310 words)
Abstract	:	The janissaries (from Turkish yeniçeri, yeñīçerī , or new troops) were the elite standing infantry troops of the Ottoman sultans. Established either under Orhan (Orkhān, r. c. 724–63/1324–62) or Murad (Murād I, r. 763–91/1362–89) as the sultan’s bodyguard and comprising only a few hundred men, they soon evolved into the dynasty’s elite infantry to counterbalance the Turcoman marcher lords’ tribal levies. Paid in cash four times a year, the janissaries were part of the sultan’s salaried household slave troops (kapıkulu, qāpīqūlu) . As
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2734.pdf