Mamluk military training prized individual horsemanship and resisted European artillery tactics

Evidence

Compare with the Mamluk furusiyya exercises described by Ayalon, where military training was a parade, a game, a public entertainment, and a mark of individual honour, in which the cavalryman displayed and developed his bodily prowess, his agility, his skill with horse and lance, his chivalry … Although European artillery experts were employed in Egypt in the 1770s, they made little impact on the tactics of the army, which continued to rely on the charge of the individual cavalier as the preferred form of attack. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 647

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the furusiyya tradition of Mamluk cavalry training as parade, game, and individual honour rather than systematic drilled warfare.