i think mamluks and the separation of military and interior concerns within various Islamic states of the period are very interesting developments tbh. it was a very interesting aspect of reading Debt. part of the core notion there was hacking around the no muslims killing muslims rule in Islam. what do you do when the other caliphate has shit you want? simply send our christian slave army to fight them of course! but then, this also is the kind of thing that allowed the interesting proto-capitalist economy based on mutual cooperation to come into existing, and the islamic world to innovate checks that could be written in Mali and cashed in Iran. especially this is interesting when you compare it to the 10’s of thousands of tiny feudal territories that Europe was carved into at the same time.
i think mamluks and the separation of military and interior concerns within various Islamic states of the period are very interesting developments tbh. it was a very interesting aspect of reading Debt. part of the core notion there was hacking around the no muslims killing muslims rule in Islam. what do you do when the other caliphate has shit you want? simply send our christian slave army to fight them of course! but then, this also is the kind of thing that allowed the interesting proto-capitalist economy based on mutual cooperation to come into existing, and the islamic world to innovate checks that could be written in Mali and cashed in Iran. especially this is interesting when you compare it to the 10’s of thousands of tiny feudal territories that Europe was carved into at the same time.
God: Oh shit o fuck they outsmarted me! I’VE BEEN FOILED AGAIN! Hopefully they don’t find out about the poophole loophole…