The Lion of Egypt : Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the thirteenth century

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The Lion of Egypt : Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the thirteenth century

Peter Thorau ; translated by P.M. Holt

Longman, 1992

  • : pbk

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Sultan Baibars I. von Ägypten

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Translation of: Sultan Baibars I. von Ägypten. Wiesbaden : L. Reichert, 1987

Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780582068223

Description

Contemporary and opponent of St Louis of France and Edward I of England, Sultan and Baybars I of Egypt (c. 1220-1277) began his career as a military slave but died, like his contemporaries, a conqueror, a formidable ruler and one of the dominant personalities of the 13th century world. Though little known in the west today, he was in fact a key figure in world history. He turned back the Mongol invasion force and saved Islam and Christendom alike from the hitherto-invincible successors of Genghis Khan. Baybars more than any other "Sarecen" leader, finally threw the Crusaders out of the Holy Land. He was also the true founder of the Mamluk Sultante that ruled Egypt and Syria until the Ottoman conquest in 1517. The text is fully annotated giving precise indication of information sources and is based upon a wide range of medieval Arabic and European historical records. This is the only available English-language study of Baybars life and career. It is aimed a graduate and undergraduate courses in Near Eastern and Islamic history and the Crusades. It should also be of interest to the general reader who has some prior knowledge of the subject.

Table of Contents

  • The political background of Baybar's youth
  • Baybar's origins and rise to power
  • Baybars as Sultan. Appendices: Mongol influences on the Mamluk state
  • Baybar's embassies to Berke Khan
  • the Khutba for Berke Khan
  • an alleged expedition against Antioch in 665/1266
  • the capture of Crac des Chevaliers
  • the Battle of Albistan
  • the cause of Baybar's death.
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: pbk ISBN 9780582068230

Description

Baybars (c.1220--1277), the great conqueror, began as a slave and ended, like his opponents Saint Louis and Edward I, as a ruler of immense contemporary renown. Hardly known today, he is in fact a key figure in world history: saviour of Islam and Christendom from the Mongols; destroyer of Crusader power in the Holy Land; and founder of the Mamluk Sultanate that ruled Egypt and the Levant until the Ottoman conquest in 1517. Based on Arabic and European sources, this is the only available English-language account of Baybars's career -- the only full-length study of any medieval Moslem ruler, indeed, apart from Saladin -- and fills many important gaps in the current historiography of the medieval Middle East and Mediterranean.

Table of Contents

  • The political background of Baybar's youth
  • Baybar's origins and rise to power
  • Baybars as Sultan. Appendices: Mongol influences on the Mamluk state
  • Baybar's embassies to Berke Khan
  • the Khutba for Berke Khan
  • an alleged expedition against Antioch in 665/1266
  • the capture of Crac des Chevaliers
  • the Battle of Albistan
  • the cause of Baybar's death.

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