IN AUGUST 1516, on the plain of Marj Dabik in northern Syria, an Ottoman army smashed the forces of the Mamluk sultan of Cairo. The Turkish victory abruptly ended Cairo's 500-year domination of the ...

While it’s now accepted by many that video games are an art form, it still might be hard to believe that one is featured in an exhibit at the same museum that’s home to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” ...

In 1260, the Mongols were at the height of their power. At this moment, a large Mongol army swept into Syria ready to crush the forces of the Mamluk Sultan Qutuz. In defiance, the Mamluk Sultan ...

AMMAN — Arab and Ottoman ruling elites and dynasties relied for centuries on the class of the slave-warriors called Mamluks, who were ethnically diverse and usually came from the Turkic, Caucasian, ...

Slaves turned sultans, the Mamluks were a force of nature. They crushed European Crusaders, fought off the Mongols and even captured French King Louis IX for ransom. Yet, for all their military ...

The Mamluks, who descended from non-Arab slaves who were naturalised to serve and fight for ruling Arab dynasties, are revered as some of the greatest warriors the world has ever known. Although the ...

In 1347 slave traders from the Black Sea brought with them something far deadlier than a cargo of future Mamluk warriors: the Black Death. Plague infested the whole of the known world, but nowhere was ...

Awlad Al-Nas – Thulatiyat Al-Mamalik (Sons of the People: The Mamluks Trilogy), Reem Bassiouney, Nahdat Masr Publishing, Cairo 2018. pp.759 This historical novel consists of three unequal parts, or ...

It is, as Dr. Souraya Noujaim puts it, ‘a big premiere for Louvre Abu Dhabi.’ The exhibition ‘Mamluks: Legacy of an Empire’, organized in partnership with the Musée du Louvre in Paris, marks the ...