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> From: Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
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> Subject: Re: question - Turco-Japanese (a thought experiment for the group
> here)
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> > You might have hit on something here. I don't think the Turks had any
much
> > aversion to killing fellow Muslims - one of the reasons medieval Islamic
> rulers
> > liked Turkish slave-soldiers was supposedly that they were less prone to
> such
> > inhibitions than Arabs and Persians - but while it will have been very
> easy to
> > be assimilated by culturally superior Muslim Persians in Iran and Arabs
in
> > Iraq/Syria/Egypt, the religious devide will have made it hard to be
> assimilated
> > by Christian Greeks and Armenians in Anatolia.
>
> um, the Turks became the rulers of Egypt (via those slave-soldiers - the
> Mamluks)...and, culture and law was, at least in part, assimilated from
the
> Byzantines and Armenians (etc), in part thanks to marriage between the
Turks
> and their predecessors.
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