375:, the introduction of gunpowder weapons prompted changes well beyond military organization, although the exact changes were modified by local circumstances." I've got no idea what the next two sentences have to do with the subject of the article. The first section of the body is, at best, confusing, with unclear relevance to the article subject. If anything it seems to question the whole existence of the article subject at all. We then have three sections on the gunpowder weapons of the three empires. But the subject of the article is supposed to be Islamic Gunpowder Empires, not Islamic gunpowder weapons of the 16th and 17th centuries. The infobox is written as if they were one unitary empire that lasted over 200 years, when clearly there are massive differences between the
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423:. The page has been linked in many articles. Maps of the Islamic Gunpowders can also be found. The googlebooks searches include published books and can be referenced in manual style of wikipedia. There was such Islamic phenomen. The word Islamic Gunpowders has been used to express the three Muslim empires of the early modern period.
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Islamic gunpowder empires which are mentioned several times when searching "gunpowder empires" using Google.
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Islamic Gunpowder empires, which I suppose is better than the previous name. I'm still not sure the term is commonly used enough to justify an entire article. Even if it is considered notable enough to have its own article, it surely has to be stubbed.
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