Les armées : structures (3)

Zouache, Abbès

doi:10.4000/books.ifpo.391

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“…As for the troop numbers, any estimate is in doubt because the figures given by the sources are sometimes symbolic and/or rhetoric. 78 What is clear is that these figures are often overstated. For instance, the data provided by Nāṣir-ī Ḫusraw just for the corps stationed in Fusṭāṭ amounted to 215,000 men, to which must be added the other troops of the Fatimid Empire.…”

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Remarks on the Blacks in the Fatimid Army, Tenth–Twelfth Century CE

Zouache¹

2019

Northeast African Studies

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In this article, I revisit some aspects of the organization of the Fatimid army, and more specifically to the role played by its black contingents, who are still often considered the most faithful supporters of the dynasty. Wherever they came from and regardless of their social and legal status, black soldiers, whose Egyptian-ness was indisputable, were major players in the history of the Fatimid Caliphate. Medieval authors, who sometimes conveyed negative representations linked with racial bias, and who are not necessarily accurate in dealing with other races, even acknowledged this role.

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