Mamluk Dynasty: (1250-1517) “a dynasty that prevailed against the most powerful empire of the medieval age”-James Waterson
A Mamluk is a slave, this empire was created by slave soldiers that took control for themselves. There greatest achievement was the expulsion of the crusader forces from the Levant as well as their rout of the Mongols, earning the Mamluks praise from all Muslims for saving Arabic/Islamic civilization form destruction. The Mamluk Caliphate restored Egypt as the principal trade and transit route between the Orient and the Mediterranean
History of the Mamluk
1.What city did the Mamluks make dominant in the Islamic world? 2. What does the word Mamluk mean? 3. Regarding the Mamluk victory over the Mongols, why did historian Ayn Jalut say that “the people of the steppe had been destroyed by the people of the steppe”? 4. why were Mamluks so dependent on the king/sultan? 5. what does Furusiyya mean and what makes it similar to the Christian chivalric code? 6. What proved the catalyst for the Mamluks to finally dispense with their Ayyubid overlords? 7. What was the average reign of a Mamluk sultan and why was it so short? Fall of the Mamluks 1. who conquered the Mamluks and when? |
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