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The Mamluk Sultanate (Arabic: سلطنة المماليك, romanized: Salṭanat al-Mamālīk), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries.
The Mamluk Sultanate was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz (western Arabia) in the mid-13th–early 16th centuries. It was ruled by a military caste of mamluks (manumitted slave soldiers) at the head of which was the sultan.
Jun 3, 2022 · A map illustrating the rise and evolution of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt from its beginning as an act of rebellion of a slave army against its masters from the Ayyubid dynasty, through its fair share of internal turbulence and strife, into one of the most powerful and wealthiest states of the late medieval world that ruled Egypt, the Levant ...
May 31, 2024 · Under the Ayyubid sultanate, Mamluk generals used their power to establish a dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria from 1250 to 1517. The Mamluk class came to an end under the rule of Muhammad Ali in Egypt.
Map 8.13.1 8.13. 1: Map of the Mamluk Sultanate, 1317 CE (CC BY-SA 4.0; User “Ro4444” via Wikimedia Commons) The Mamluk Sultanate appeared to be on a collision course with Hulagu’s Ilkhanate, one of Mongol Empire’s four khanates, whose forces were advancing through the Mamluk-held Levant.
The Mamluk sultanate (1250–1517) emerged from the weakening of the Ayyubid realm in Egypt and Syria (1250–60). Ayyubid sultans depended on slave (Arabic: mamluk, literally “owned,” or slave) soldiers for military organization, yet mamluks of Qipchaq Turkic origin eventually overthrew the last independent Ayyubid sultan in Egypt, Turan ...
The History of the Mamluk Sultanate, an empire based in Egypt and Syria, spans the period between the mid-13th century, with the overthrow of the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt, and 1517, when it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
