At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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In time
The Mamluk state ruled Egypt and the Levant, building beautiful mosques and schools whose monuments remain today.
The Mamluk Sultanate governed Egypt and the Levant from the mid-7th to early 10th century AH. Its sultans were renowned for defending the lands and excelling in Islamic architecture, erecting grand mosques, colleges, and trade centers decorated with marble and fine stone carving.
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A major Islamic sultanate that governed Egypt, Syria, and the Hijaz from c. 648 AH (1250 CE) until the Ottoman conquest in 923 AH (1517 CE), centered in Cairo. Divided historically into the Bahri and Burji periods, the sultanate defended the realm against Mongol and Crusader threats, secured trans-regional trade routes and the pilgrimage, and fostered a golden age of monumental architecture, endowments, and encyclopedic scholarship.
Overview
The state that ruled Egypt, Syria and the Hijaz from about 1250 to the Ottoman conquest of 1517, centered on Cairo; the Bahri mamluks were succeeded by the Burji.
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Sources
- Carl F. Petry, The Mamluk Sultanate: A History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)
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islam.museum contributors. “Mamluk Sultanate”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/polity/mamluk-sultanate/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-29.