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4 days ago · Under their protection, they extended their territory into Aleppo to the south. In January of 1265, Baibars, the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt, launched an offensive against the Frankish crusaders who then ruled the city, and in 1268, he besieged Antioch, capturing it on May 18th.
5 days ago · Timur (born 1336, Kesh, near Samarkand, Transoxania [now in Uzbekistan]—died February 19, 1405, Otrar, near Chimkent [now Shymkent, Kazakhstan]) was a Turkic conqueror, chiefly remembered for the barbarity of his conquests from India and Russia to the Mediterranean Sea and for the cultural achievements of his dynasty.
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- Why is Timur important?Timur was the last Central Asian conqueror to achieve great military successes as a leader of nomad warrior lords, ruling both agricultural and pas...
- Where did Timur come from?Timur was a member of the Turkicized Barlas tribe, a Mongol subgroup that had settled in Transoxania (now roughly corresponding to Uzbekistan) afte...
- How did Timur come to power?Timur led a small nomad band and, by guile and force of arms, established dominion over Transoxania by the 1360s. About 1370 Timur proclaimed himse...
- What was Timur like?Timur spent his life leading a nearly constant military campaign. The nomadic tactics of mobility and surprise were his major weapons of attack. He...
- What was Timur’s legacy?Under Timur and his successors, Samarkand became a centre of scholarship and science. His mausoleum there, the Gūr-e Amīr, is one of the gems of Is...
4 days ago · One of Ibn Taymiyya's teachers was the first Hanbali Chief Justice of Syria, Shams al-Din al-Maqdisi, who held the newly created position instituted by Baibars as part of a reform of the judiciary. Al-Maqdisi later came to give Ibn Taymiyya permission to issue legal verdicts, making him a judge at the age of seventeen.
1 day ago · Turkey. The Sultanate of Rûm [a] was a culturally Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim state, established over conquered Byzantine territories and peoples ( Rûm) of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks following their migration and entry into Anatolia after the Battle of Manzikert (1071). The name Rûm was a synonym for the medieval Eastern Roman Empire and ...
2 days ago · Alawites Zulfiqar, the stylised representation of the sword of Ali, is a crucial symbol for both Alawites and Shia Muslims The Shrine of Khidr, located near the Syria-Turkey border, is a typical Alawite shrine with its striking white color and dome. Total population About 3 million Founder Ibn Nuṣayr and Al-Khaṣībī Regions with significant populations Syria Between 2 and 3 million Turkey ...
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3 days ago · As the flames of the Crusades raged across the Levant, one order of warrior monks stood at the forefront of the struggle to defend Christendom's holdings in the Holy Land - the Knights Templar.
4 days ago · Leaders of Baibars and Christian Crusaders saw the Mongols as a serious threat. Hulegu and most of the Mongols living in Il-khanate converted to Islam, and because of that they supported the massacres of Jews. Kublai Khan Kublai was also a grandson of Khan, but he set his sights on China, which was ruled by the Song Dynasty.
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