Encyclopedia MAWLA Batoota August 5, 2014 0 MAWLA. Derived from wala (“to be close to, be friends with, have power over”), the term mawla (pl., mawali) has entered other languages as a […]
Encyclopedia JANISSARIES Batoota July 12, 2014 0 JANISSARIES. In the late fourteenth century the government of the Ottoman Empire established an elite slave infantry known as “new troops” or Janissaries (Turkish, yenicen), […]