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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 November 2009
      02 February 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511563485
      9780521522908
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511563485
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 292 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
      Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Regional History Before 1500, Middle East History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Regional History Before 1500, Middle East History
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    For sixty years, from 1260 to 1323, the Mamluk state in Egypt and Syria was at war with the Ilkhanid Mongols based in Persia. This is the first comprehensive study of the political and military aspects of the early years of the war, from the battle of 'Ayn Jalut in 1260 to the battle of Homs in 1281. In between these campaigns, the Mamluk-Ilkhanid struggle was continued in the manner of a 'cold war' with both sides involved in border skirmishes, diplomatic manoeuvres, and espionage. Here, as in the major battles, the Mamluks usually maintained the upper hand, establishing themselves as the foremost Muslim power at the time. By drawing on previously untapped Persian and Arabic sources, the author sheds new light on the confrontation, examining the war within the context of Mongol/Mamluk relations with the Byzantine Empire, the Latin West and the Crusading states.

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    ‘… a book that is as important as it is learned, and that offers us a thorough and illuminating study of a turning-point in the history of the Middle East and the Mediterranean world’.

    David J. Wasserstein Source: Mediterranean History Review

    ‘Mongols and Mamluks is a welcome addition to the body of knowledge on the transition between the ‘Abbasid and post-‘Abbasid periods of Islamic History.’

    Dr Muhammad A. Jabbar Beg Source: Impact International

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