IN AUGUST 1516, on the plain of Marj Dabik in northern Syria, an Ottoman army smashed the forces of the Mamluk sultan of Cairo. The Turkish victory abruptly ended Cairo's 500-year domination of the ...
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Mongols vs. Mamluks | The Battle of Ain Jalut
In 1260, the Mongols were at the height of their power. At this moment, a large Mongol army swept into Syria ready to crush the forces of the Mamluk Sultan Qutuz. In defiance, the Mamluk Sultan ...
Between the fall of the Abbasid Caliphate and the ascent of the Ottoman Empire, there stood the formidable Mamluk Sultanate. Spanning the 13th to the 16th centuries CE, this regional power ruled over ...
In time, the Turkish overlords of the Arab world lost their grip on power. In 1220, the Mongols poured out of the steppes of central Asia and began the process of substantially destroying the central ...
The Mamluks, who descended from non-Arab slaves who were naturalised to serve and fight for ruling Arab dynasties, are revered as some of the greatest warriors the world has ever known. Although the ...
The cover of a new book entitled “The Incident of Sultan Selim and Sultan Al-Ghauri” by Egyptian historical researcher Abdel Aziz Gamal Eddin shows an Ottoman army formation blasting cannons in battle ...
Awlad Al-Nas – Thulatiyat Al-Mamalik (Sons of the People: The Mamluks Trilogy), Reem Bassiouney, Nahdat Masr Publishing, Cairo 2018. pp.759 This historical novel consists of three unequal parts, or ...
It is, as Dr. Souraya Noujaim puts it, ‘a big premiere for Louvre Abu Dhabi.’ The exhibition ‘Mamluks: Legacy of an Empire’, organized in partnership with the Musée du Louvre in Paris, marks the ...
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