Ghilman (singular غُلاَم ghulām , plural غِلْمَان ghilmān ) describes either young servants in paradise or slave-soldiers in the Abbasid, Ottoman, and Persian Safavid, Afsharid, and Qajar Empires. To a lesser extent, they played a role too in the Mughal Empire. ==History== The ghilman were introduced to the Abbasid Caliphate du...