The Lion of Egypt: Sultan Baybars I and the Near East in the Thirteenth Century - Softcover

Thorau, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582068231 ISBN 13: 9780582068230

Verlag: Pearson Education Limited, 1992

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'Thorau has produced the definitive history of the public man.' The Times Literary Supplement

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Baybars (c.1220--1277), the great conqueror, began as a slave and ended, like his opponents Saint Louis and Edward I, as a ruler of immense contemporary renown. Hardly known today, he is in fact a key figure in world history: saviour of Islam and Christendom from the Mongols; destroyer of Crusader power in the Holy Land; and founder of the Mamluk Sultanate that ruled Egypt and the Levant until the Ottoman conquest in 1517. Based on Arabic and European sources, this is the only available English-language account of Baybars's career -- the only full-length study of any medieval Moslem ruler, indeed, apart from Saladin -- and fills many important gaps in the current historiography of the medieval Middle East and Mediterranean.

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• Verlag: Pearson Education Limited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0582068231
• ISBN 13: 9780582068230
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336