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Mamluks

The last of the Ayyubid sultans

1240
Cairo, Egypt

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.


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