Kairat Begalin’s book “The Mamluks” describes the almost thousand-year history of Turkic military formations in the countries of Eurasia, mainly the Muslim East. In medieval chronicles they appear under different names: “black hoods”, “gulyams”, “kuls”, “kulams”, “capuculars”, “turushka”, “culemens”. In the guard of the Ayyubid dynasty, which ruled Egypt and Syria in the Middle Ages , the Turkic guards were called Mamluks. In 1250 they came to power in Egypt, creating a country that went down in history under the name “Dulat al-Atturk,” which means “Empire of the Turks.” The book is written in a lively, accessible language, fascinating and intelligible. The reader will not only find interesting historical information in the book, but will also receive considerable pleasure from getting acquainted with one of the missing chapters of the biography of the nomadic Turks. The book is intended for a wide range of history buffs, teachers of educational institutions, local historians, students of universities and schools.