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Baybars takes Safed, 664

أخذ بيبرس صفد سنة 664هـ

c. June 1266 CE · c. 8 Sha'ban 664 AH

Baybars's coastal campaign of 664 — his columns raided Acre, Tyre, Tripoli and Hisn al-Akrad, then he sat down before Safed on 8 Ramadan; the great Templar fortress was tricked into surrender in forty days, two hundred of its knights were beheaded, and many of the besiegers fell martyred beneath it 1.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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1250126012701280 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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In 664 AH al-Malik al-Zahir Baybars raided, sending his armies along the coasts. They raided the lands of Acre, Tyre, Tripoli and the fortress of the Kurds. He then camped before Safed on the eighth of Ramadan. It was taken after forty days by trickery, and two hundred of its horsemen were beheaded. Many Muslims were martyred in the taking of it 2.

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al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars

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The battle of Ayn Jalut and the defeat of the Tatars· Baybars takes Jaffa, Beaufort and Antioch, 666· Baybars takes Caesarea and Arsuf, 663· Baybars raids Cilicia, 673· Death of al-Zahir Baybars, 676· Baybars takes Hisn al-Akrad and Akkar, 669· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· The Euphrates crossing to relieve al-Bira, 671

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  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 546
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p.546
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The battle of Ayn Jalut and the defeat of the Tatars

In 658 the Tatars crossed the Euphrates, put Aleppo to the sword and reached Damascus; the Egyptians marched that Sha'ban, al-Muzaffar leading with Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari his shalish — they met the Tatars at Ayn Jalut on Friday 15 Ramadan and routed them utterly, the first great breaking of their tide. The rejoicing flew to Damascus; Baybars drove them beyond Aleppo — promised the city, then refused it — the germ of their falling-out.