A Brief History of Mamluk Egypt

A Brief History of Mamluk Egypt

A brief history of the Mamluk Egypt

Independent, large in area, and durable, Mamluk Cairo ruled Egypt, Syria, and the Hegaz from AD1249 until the Ottoman conquest of AD1517. Until after Napoleon's expedition, Istanbul relied for the administration, tax collecting, and military control of Egypt on a renewed class of mamluk beys. The mamalik formed an Egyptian nobility. Beginning in AD1807. Albanian Ottoman Muhammad 'Ali Basha created a modern Egypt of European deisgn. His retainers and Albanian infantry murdered the superflous mamalik on 01 March 1811 and the months following, pursuing them so far as the Sudan. He killed perhaps 3,000 mamalik and their retainers and family. Thus ended a practice and class almost a millenium old.

Brian Broadus

Brian Broadus