Rise to power of Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo) Top 9 Facts

• published: 14 Dec 2015
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Facts : 1 Mamluk regiments constituted the backbone of the Egyptian military under the Ayyubid Dynasty Facts : 2 Each sultan, and high-ranking emir had his private corps, and the Sultan as-Salih Ayyub (r Facts : 3 They were mostly drawn from among the Cumans-Kipchaks who controlled the steppes north of the Black Sea, and Circassians, Abkhazians and Georgians of the Caucasus region Facts : 4 Mamluks in the empire retained a particularly strong sense of Cuman identity, to the degree that the biography of Sultan Baibars focused on his birth and early years in Desht-i-Kipchak ( Steppe of the Kipchaks /Cumania) Facts : 5 Roman Kovalev states that this story can further be seen as a mechanism for the preservation of a collective memory broadly reflecting a sense of Cuman identity in the Mamluk Sultanate Facts : 6 In 1249 Louis IX of France led a crusade on an invasion of Egypt, capturing Damietta and then proceeding slowly southward Facts : 7 As they advanced, as-Salih Ayyub died and was succeeded by his son al-Muazzam Turanshah, but before Turanshah could arrive at the front, the Bahri mamluks defeated the crusaders at the Battle of Al Mansurah and captured Louis, effectively ending the crusade Facts : 8 Turanshah proceeded to place his own entourage and especially his own mamluks, called Mu`azzamis, in positions of authority to the detriment of Bahri interests Facts : 9 Four weeks after Louis capture, on May 2, 1250, a group of Bahris assassinated Turanshah