Who operates Bahriya?

Bahriya is operated by Mamluk LLC-FZ, the company that develops the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine. It is a public cloud built in the United Arab Emirates, and its terms of service are published at bahriya.cloud/terms .

Where can Bahriya services be deployed?

Bahriya is generally available in four regions, with further regions on its published roadmap, including its first in the GCC. The current map is maintained at bahriya.cloud/locations .

Is Islamic Network free to use?

Yes. Every Islamic Network application and API is offered without charge, and the source code is published at 1x.ax .

Is Islamic Network part of Mamluk?

Islamic Network is where Mamluk began. Mamluk maintains its codebase and runs its day-to-day operations, and its infrastructure is hosted on Bahriya.

Brands

One small house. Two brands serving different audiences.

Mamluk operates a public cloud and one of the most widely-used Islamic API networks in the world. Each brand stands on its own, but they share the same engineering standard.

Brand 01

Bahriya

Our public cloud, powered by the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine.

Bahriya is the public cloud we built for ourselves and now offer to others. It runs on the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine — the same distribution we license for on-premise installation. Built in the UAE, with discounted pricing for Islamic and non-profit projects.

What Bahriya offers

HTTP containers: any OCI-compliant image deployed as a web service, with TLS, GeoDNS, health-check failover and per-region autoscaling.
Worker containers and cron jobs: background workloads with no public ingress, and images run on a schedule with per-execution history.
Managed Valkey and Managed Memcached: in-memory datastores, with scheduled backups and self-service restoration for Valkey.
Storage, networking and secrets: replicated SSD volumes, private-by-default network policies, and encrypted keys, certificates and configuration files.
Published terms: a 99.95% monthly uptime target with service credits, and pricing per resource, per region and per minute with no committed spend.
Four interfaces: the console, the Reis CLI, a Terraform provider and a locked v1 API, each able to perform every action.

Named after the Bahri Mamluks, the river-stationed elite regiment that founded the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo.

Visit bahriya.cloud →

Brand 02

Islamic Network

The world's most-used network of Islamic APIs and applications.

Islamic Network is where Mamluk began. It serves up to 60 million daily requests across a network of Islamic APIs and applications used by over 1,500 developers worldwide. Its best-known properties include aladhan.com and alquran.cloud.

What Islamic Network offers

AlAdhan.com: a prayer times and Hijri calendar application and API, serving up to 60 million requests a day.
AlQuran.cloud: a Qur'an application, API and CDN that makes the text and recitations of the Qur'an available in many languages.
The Islamic Network CDN: streaming of Qur'an recitations and other Islamic media.
Further APIs and applications: an API for khutbas, a devotional calendar of the Hijri year, a register of the people of Islam, and a collection of sayings of the saints.
Reading sites: Marifa.org, Perennialism.org and AlAqida.com, focused on tasawwuf, the perennial tradition and the creed of Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jama'a.
Free and open source: every service is offered without charge, and the source code is published at 1x.ax.

Visit islamic.network →

How they relate

One engineering standard, three layers.

Mamluk develops the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine, the enterprise Kubernetes distribution it licenses to organisations for installation in their own data centres.

Bahriya runs on that distribution. The software a BKE customer installs is therefore the same software that carries Bahriya's own production traffic.

Islamic Network is hosted on Bahriya. Its applications and APIs serve up to 60 million requests a day, and Mamluk maintains their code and runs their day-to-day operations.

Each brand is operated by Mamluk LLC-FZ. Enquiries about any of them can be sent to Mamluk directly.

Questions

Common questions about Mamluk's brands.

Who operates Bahriya?: Bahriya is operated by Mamluk LLC-FZ, the company that develops the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine. It is a public cloud built in the United Arab Emirates, and its terms of service are published at bahriya.cloud/terms.
Where can Bahriya services be deployed?: Bahriya is generally available in four regions, with further regions on its published roadmap, including its first in the GCC. The current map is maintained at bahriya.cloud/locations.
Is Islamic Network free to use?: Yes. Every Islamic Network application and API is offered without charge, and the source code is published at 1x.ax.
Is Islamic Network part of Mamluk?: Islamic Network is where Mamluk began. Mamluk maintains its codebase and runs its day-to-day operations, and its infrastructure is hosted on Bahriya.