Mastodawn

When #Mongols threatened the #MiddleEast, #Egypt's #MamlukSultanate gave an olive branch to remaining #CrusaderStates, offering peace if they allied against a common threat. When the #Crusaders refused, the #Mamluks turned on them, and on #ThisDayInHistory in 1268 took #Antioch.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Apr 20

Having given the #MongolEmpire a first major loss in the #BattleOfAinJalut in 1260, #Egypt's #MamlukSultanate surprised the #Ilkhanate by attacking & winning the #BattleOfMarjAlSaffar near #Damascus, #ThisDayInHistory in 1303. #IbnTaymiyyah's sketchy #jihad fatwas played a part.

FID Nahost Jan 22

*January 22*

On January 22, 1517, the Ottomans captured Cairo, bringing Mamluk rule in Egypt to an end and shifting the region’s balance of power.

Literature on the topic: ‘Egypt under Ottoman rule’:
https://halit.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/search?q=%22osmanisches+reich%22+%C3%A4gypten&l=menasearch&s=yeardesc&d02=Osmanisches+Reich,%C3%84gypten&d03=ssg3.2.3.8.3,ssg3.2.6.2.3

#ottomanempire #mamluks #egypt #history #mamluksultanate

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kansu_Gavri_%C3%96l%C3%BC.png?uselang=de#Lizenz (Public Domain)

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Jan 22

Showing again its mastery of the early-modern Mediterranean, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1517 the #OttomanEmpire under #SelimI defeated the #MamlukSultanate under slave-sultan #TumanBayII in the #BattleOfRidaniya. İstanbul held Egypt (loosely) until the British Protectorate of 1914.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Oct 28, 2025

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1516, the #MamlukSultanate in Egypt lost the #BattleOfYaunisKhan at #KhanYunis in the #GazaStrip. The victorious #OttomanEmpire found the way clear to toppling the Mamluks and claiming Egypt's wealth. #Ottoman power went largely unchallenged for centuries.

World History Encyclopedia May 27, 2023

Shajara al-Durr (r. https://www.worldhistory.org/Shajara_al-Durr/ #History #MamlukSultanate #SeventhCrusade #Shajaraal-Durr

Shajara al-Durr

Shajara al-Durr (r. 1250) was the founder of the Mamluk Dynasty in Egypt, and she was the first and only woman to sit on the Islamic Egyptian throne. She held the title of sultana for only 80 days but...

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