However, it was with the rise of the Turks that the Mamlukes came into their own. The Spanish court of Cordoba as well as the Fatimid court in Cairo employed Mamluke bodyguards. Young Mamluke men were trained in special camps as bodyguards, taught the precepts of Islam and inducted into the army. The European slaves were in great demand in Muslim courts because the men made excellent soldiers and the women were sought for their fair skin. The root word in Arabic for Mamluke is m-l-k ( malaka, to own). Ibn Fadlun gives a graphic picture of the deplorable conditions in the Viking slave ships. Men, women and children were captured in northern and eastern Europe, brought down the Volga River and sold to Muslim and Jewish merchants. Eastern Europe, fossilized as it was between local fiefdoms, was a particular target of these raids. The Vikings raided Europe with unrelenting ferocity in search of booty and slaves. In the 9 th and 10 th centuries, there was a brisk slave trade down the Volga River, near the Caspian Sea. The history of the Mamlukes illustrates this observation. Islam liberated men and women from the shackles of slavery and made them masters of the world. Razia must now chose between her crown and her love for Yakut.Contributed by Prof. The problem is that Yakut is a dark-skinned man, who was the emperor's slave at one time, but set free and inducted in the army.
After her succession, the court officials start to gossip about her personal life, and her affair with a Yakut Jamaluddin. Razia proves herself to the people by showing herself as much caring, compassionate, and dedicated as her dad, earning the respect of all, and she is accepted as the first ever female emperor of the land. This decision raises a hue and cry against the emperor, as many are opposed to a woman ruling over them. The apple of Sultan's eye is his daughter, Razia, and he would like her to succeed him as Emperor.
He takes swift action when he comes to know that his very son has violated the peace, and broken the law, and has him severely and publicly whipped, incurring his wife's displeasure. Emperor Sultan Iltames is known for his fairness, compassion, and sense of justice.
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