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Faqāriyyah

Mamluk dynasty

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role in Egypt

In Egypt: Ottoman administration
…into two great rival houses—the Faqāriyyah and the Qāsimiyyah—whose mutual hostility often broke out into fighting and impaired the strength of the Mamluks as a bloc.
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