A term referring to a young boy or slave, primarily used in the context of military organization during the medieval Islamic period, often associated with Turkish slave-soldiers known as Ghilman.
Senior judicial officials in the Ottoman Empire responsible for overseeing legal matters, particularly those related to the military-administrative branch.
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