The wāfidiyya were troops of various ethnic backgrounds who came into the military service of the Mamlūk Sultanate of Egypt and Syria in exchange for...

Summoned in times of war and some of them are part of the Halqa troops. The wāfidiyya (الوافدية) were troops of various ethnic backgrounds who came into the...

born professional forces were also directly under the sultan's command. Wafidiyya: Turks and Mongols that migrated to the dynasty's border after the Mongol...

military's need for new mamluks, the sultans often resorted to recruiting wafidiyya (Ilkhanid deserters or prisoners of war). To legitimize their rule, the...

Khwarazmiyya in the Arabic sources, the Khwarazmians were among the first wafidiyya (or musta'minun), groups of refugee soldiers from the east who took up...

under the care of Emir Bashtak and he was transferred a large number of wafidiyya (immigrant, typically Mongol, soldiers) from Aleppo and other troops....