Mamluk Sultanate
Also known as: Egyptian Mamluk Empire · Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate
The Mamluk Sultanate, also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries, with Cairo as its capital.
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Mamluk Sultanate: Ilkhanate
His military and administrative reforms cemented the power of the Mamluk state. He diplomatically engaged the Mongols to stifle their potential alliance with Christian Europe, sow divisions between the Mongol Ilkhanate and Golden Horde empires, and maintain the flow of Turkic mamluks from Mongol-controlled Central Asia.
Mamluk Sultanate: Baghdad, 1258
While mamluk factions struggled over power, the Mongols under Hulagu Khan had sacked Baghdad, the intellectual and spiritual center of the Islamic world, in 1258, and proceeded westward, capturing Aleppo and Damascus.