Episode 7.6 - Baibars
/Baibars was the Sultan of Egypt and Syria in the 13th century. Born on the Eurasian Steppe, he was enslaved as a teen, and became a slave soldier. He rose through the ranks to become a general, and eventually the Sultan of Cairo. He helped stop the Mongol advance into the Levant, and effectively ended the Crusades in the Middle East. And he stabilized the Cairo Sultanate for generations.
Sources
Abul-Aziz Khowaiter, Baibars The First
Christian Müller and Johannes Pahlitzsch, Arabica, “Sultan Baybars I and the Georgians”
Edmond Shutz, Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, “The Decisive Motives of Tatar Failure in the Ilkhanid - Mamluk Fights in the Holt Land”
Amina A Elbendary, The Sultan, The Tyrant, and The Hero: Changing Medieval Perceptions of al-Zahir Baybars
D. J. Cathcart King, “The taking of Le Krak des Chevaliers in 1271”
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