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4 days ago · The army Baybars inherited consisted of Kurdish and Turkic tribesmen, refugees from the Ayyubid armies of Syria, and other troops from armies dispersed by the Mongols. After the Battle of Ain Jalut, Baybars restructured the army into three components: the Royal Mamluk regiment, the soldiers of the emirs, and the halqa (non-mamluk
4 days ago · The Red Mosque in Safed, 2001. It was originally built by the Mamluk sultan Baybars in 1275, and renovated or expanded by the Ottomans in 1671/72. The Ayyubids of Egypt had been supplanted by the Mamluks in 1250 and the Mamluk sultan Baybars entered Syria with his army in 1261.
Sep 13, 2024 · The Mamlūk ruler Baybars I invaded Anatolia in 1277, defeated the Mongols, and penetrated as far west as Kayseri. In the ensuing confusion the powerful Turkmen chieftain Muḥammad Beg Qarāĩānī seized Konya, established Turkish as the language of administration, and installed a puppet ruler (allegedly a member of the Seljuq family).
Sep 14, 2024 · In this book a comprehensive documentation of the origins, life, accom- plishments of the established founder of Mamluk State Sultan Baybars is collected. Documents (Inscriptions, Sculptures, manuscripts, coins) together with explanations and thematic essays shed light of this com- plicated period.
5 days ago · Soon after the Mamluk victory over the Mongols at ʿAyn Jālūt in 1260, Baybars I seized power by assassinating Quṭuz. He was the true founder of the Mamluk state, and he campaigned actively and with success against the remaining Crusader possessions in Palestine and Syria.
5 days ago · Birkat al-Fīl, for example, was part of a waqf established by al-Ẓāhir Baybars (r. 658–676/1260–1277) for the benefit of orphans. Footnote 52 This posed some legal problems when al-Nāṣir Muḥammad wanted to incorporate a part of the pond within the residence commissioned for his amīr Baktamur al-Sāqī on the shores of Birkat al-Fīl.
Sep 9, 2024 · The death of Baybars in 1277, therefore, brought only temporary respite for the Crusaders, who remained divided and isolated. In 1280 they again failed to join the Mongols, whom Sultan Qalāʾūn defeated in 1281.
