Person1223 – 1277
Baybars
Mamluk sultan, vanguard commander at Ain Jalut, who as sultan held off both the Mongols and the crusaders
Where they went
2 related events
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The slave soldiers (mamluks) of Egypt’s Ayyubid dynasty killed their sovereign and seized the state. The Mamluk sultanate held off the Mongols and the Crusaders and made Cairo the centre of the Islamic world.
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The Mamluks of Egypt under Qutuz and Baybars defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut in Palestine, halting the Mongol advance to the west.
People who appear alongside
- Qutuz1260
Mamluk sultan who defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut in 1260 and was assassinated by Baybars and others on the way home
- Hulagu Khan1217 – 1265
Grandson of Genghis Khan who took Baghdad in 1258, ending the Abbasid Caliphate, and founded the Ilkhanate
Themes this person appears in
- Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533
From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own
- The Mongol Conquests1206 – 1294
From the rise of Genghis Khan to the Yuan conquest of the Song — eighty years in which the Mongols swept Eurasia from Goryeo to Hungary