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Qutuz was a Turkic prince from Persia, [6] [7] [8] captured by the Mongols during the fall of the Khwarazmian dynasty c. 1231, he was taken to Damascus where he was sold to an Egyptian slave merchant who then sold him to Aybak, the Mamluk sultan in Cairo.
Using hit-and-run tactics and a feigned retreat by Mamluk general Baibars, combined with a final flanking maneuver by Qutuz, the Mongol army was forced to retreat toward Bisan, after which the Mamluks led a final counterattack, which resulted in the deaths of many Mongols, including Kitbuqa himself.
With its army led by Qutuz, the Mamluks marched north to defeat a small Mongolian force at Gaza, then came up against a Mongol army of around 20,000 at Ain Jalut (Goliath’s Spring), so called because it was held to be the place where King David of Israel killed the Philistine warrior Goliath, as described in the book of Samuel. The Mongol ...
By 1260, when the Mongols began to threaten Egypt, the Bahri Dynasty was on its third Mamluk sultan, Saif ad-Din Qutuz. Ironically, Qutuz was Turkic (probably a Turkmen), and had become a Mamluk after he was captured and sold into enslavement by the Ilkhanate Mongols.
Qutuz (r. 1259-1260), the Mamluk sultan of Egypt, decided to fight the Mongols. Hulegu had sent envoys to Cairo with a humiliating letter to the Mamluks commanding them to submit. Qutuz, angered by the letter, had Hulegu’s envoys cut in half and marched out to Palestine to face the Mongols.
Dec 15, 2020 · Qutuz hid most of his forces in the highlands, and Baibars fought the Mongols with hit and run tactics in an attempt to bait them out. The fighting dragged out for hours with neither side...
History. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. End of the Crusades: Mongols, Mamluks, and Muslims. views 3,905,756 updated. End of the Crusades: Mongols, Mamluks, and Muslims. By the middle of the thirteenth century the situation in the Middle East had grown completely chaotic.
