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  • Cairo, Egypt
    1240
    Mamluks

    The last of the Ayyubid sultans

    Cairo, Egypt
    1240

    Sultan as-Salih Ayyub (r. 1240–1249), the last of the Ayyubid sultans, had acquired some 1,000 mamluks (some of them free-born) from Syria, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula.




  • Cairo, Egypt
    1240
    Mamluks

    Salih promoted large numbers of his original and newly recruited Mamluks

    Cairo, Egypt
    1240

    As-Salih became sultan of Egypt in 1240, and, upon his accession to the Ayyubid throne, he manumitted and promoted large numbers of his original and newly recruited Mamluks on the condition that they remain in his service.




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