Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 'Mamluk Sultanate' is a modern historiographical term. [10] [11] Arabic sources for the period of the Bahri Mamluks refer to the dynasty as the 'State of the Turks' (Dawlat al-Atrak or Dawlat al-Turk) or 'State of Turkey' (al-Dawla al-Turkiyya).
State Formation and the History of Fifteenth Century Egypt and Syria: Part II – Comparative Solutions and a New Research Agenda." History Compass 14.11 (2016): 560–569. Walker, Bethany. Jordan in the Late Middle Ages: Transformation of the Mamluk Frontier (2011) Waterson, James. "The Mamluks" History Today (March 2006) 56#3 pp 21–27 online.
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.
Sultans of the Mamluk Sultanate The Cairo Citadel, the seat of power of the Mamluk sultans Details Last monarch Tuman bay II Formation 1250 Abolition 1517 Residence Cairo The following is a list of Mamluk sultans. The Mamluk Sultanate was founded in 1250 by mamluks of the Ayyubid sultan as-Salih Ayyub and it succeeded the Ayyubid state. It was based in Cairo and for much of its history, the ...
The Bahri Mamluks (Arabic: المماليك البحرية, romanized: al-Mamalik al-Baḥariyya), sometimes referred to as the Bahri dynasty, [1] [2] were the rulers of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt from 1250 to 1382, following the Ayyubid dynasty. The members of the Mamluk ruling class were purchased as slaves and manumitted, with the most ...
Mamluk architecture was the architectural style that developed under the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), which ruled over Egypt, the Levant, and the Hijaz from their capital, Cairo. Despite their often tumultuous internal politics, the Mamluk sultans were prolific patrons of architecture and contributed enormously to the fabric of historic ...
The Mamluk's violent approach to power brought them great political and economic prosperity and led them to becoming the rulers of Egypt. [50] The Mamluk Egypt period began with the Bahri Dynasty and was followed by the Burji Dynasty. The Bahri Dynasty would rule from 1250 to 1382, while the Burji dynasty would last from 1382 to 1517. [50]
The Tulunids (Arabic: الطولونيون) were a Mamluk dynasty of Turkic origin [2] who were the first independent dynasty to rule Egypt, as well as much of Syria, since the Ptolemaic dynasty. [3] They were independent from 868, when they broke away from the central authority of the Abbasid Caliphate , to 905, when the Abbasids restored the ...