>>1328968
Janies are infantry. Mamluks were cavalrymen.

Also Mamluks was an arab thing. The Caliphates started hiring/buying Turkic/Central Asian/Circassian People who are cavalry-wise in bulk and made them military slaves.

Due to the decline of the Abbasids this slave status became """""""""""slave"""""""""" status as they became breddy important in society. Eventually these """""""slaves""""""""" started carving out states of their own.

>>1328968
the name

>>1328974
Mamluks werent as much a professional standing force as they were a class of "slaves" who then took over power.

Both are turkic warriors and it was a shame Selim had to waste so much time and turkic lives to get egypt under his control.

Also as another poster said Janissaries were multirole infantry forces, while mamluks were mostly horseback.

>>1329036
If you lived it the steppes you were sort of professional.

>>1329041
agreed, but Janissary system was more like professional armies of today, ranks and shit

>>1328968
Janissaries were European elite infantry while Mamluks were Turkic cavalry. As said by other both were slaves. Janissaries were also raised as fanatical Sunni sect followers.

>>1329063
its the prevalent "janissaries were EXCLUSIVELY european slaves" meme

>>1328968

Janies were christian boipuccies from the balkanlals

Mamluks were derka derkas from muhamed jihads

>>1329068

Not EXCLUSIVELY, no, but the overwhelming majority of them were Christian kids. They weren't slaves, though. Most got more or less brainwashed into enjoying their job.