A gift for Sultan Muhammad Ibn Tughluq of India

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Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde

Hi Rivkin,

No it was not wrong of you to offer your oppinion, and in a way there can be some truce in it. Most mamluks were of low rank, but there were some which held a high/very high rank in the Sultans army, so they would have had very elaborate swords - only they might not have been Egyptian swords, not even the type, and a sword given to the Sultan of India for a gift, must have been something very special, or you may end up in jail or some place less pleasent - when it came to gifts, they did not joke much those days.

Heh, this is funny. When Hulegu Khan was marching throught the Jazira, one of the Ayyubid emirs (forgot his name) gave him a gift of slippers. This made Hulegu Khan furious and said "How dare you! do you see me barefooted!". The Emir said "No your highness, but these shoes bear my face on their on their soles, so that every time you step with them, you step on my face"

And this is a true story confirmed by several historians.