The Mongol invasion & the rise of the Mamluks - 4/5

Описание: The Islamic world faced annihilation. In the 13th century, the Mongols erupted from the Eurasian steppe, destroying the Khwarazmian Empire and sweeping through Persia, Central Asia, and Iraq. Cities fell. Baghdad burned. The Abbasid Caliphate collapsed.

Yet from the ashes, a new power emerged.The Mamluks of Egypt overthrew the Ayyubids, halted the Mongol advance at ʿAyn Jālūt, and reshaped the political and military balance of the Middle East. They would go on to weaken the remaining Crusader states and restore a measure of stability to the region.

This is Part 4 of a 5-part series tracing 1444 years of Islamic civilization from its birth.

00:00 The Rise of the Mongols
02:20 Mamluks

🧠 Further Reading

• Peter Jackson, The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion (2017)
• Reuven Amitai, The Mongols in the Islamic Lands: Studies in the History of the Ilkhanate (2007)
• David Morgan, The Mongols (2nd ed., 2007)
• Anne F. Broadbridge, Kingship and Ideology in the Islamic and Mongol Worlds (2008)
• Amalia Levanoni, A Turning Point in Mamluk History: The Third Reign of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad ibn Qalāwūn (1310–1341) (1995)
• Robert Irwin, The Middle East in the Middle Ages: The Early Mamluk Sultanate 1250–1382 (1986)
• Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives (1999)

🎵 Music & SFX: Licensed through Epidemic Sound

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