How did the powerful Ottoman Empire manage to conquer Egypt a major Mamluk stronghold in just one year? This video explores the military strategy, political maneuvering, and key battles behind the ...

If you’re a 90’s high school graduate, you must remember the novel 'Wa Islamah' written by Yemeni author Ali Ahmed Ba’katheer and read in ...

Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities held a ceremony to mark the completion of multi-year renovations to the grand 14th-century mosque of Altunbugha al-Maridani in Historic Cairo.

Sixteenth century illustration showing the Mongol conquest of the Nizarid fortress of Alamut. Credit: Virginia MOA / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The next objective was the elimination or ...

The manuscript includes the 16th part of the Quran, written by Sultan Al-Ashraf Qansuh Al-Ghuri one of the rulers during the Mamluk era. The over 500-page manuscript was smuggled from Egypt.

Mamluks: Studying slave-warriors diversity, historyAMMAN — Arab and Ottoman ruling elites and dynasties relied for centuries on the class of the slave-warriors called Mamluks, who were ethnically ...

We began the tour at the Khanqah of Faraj ibn Barquq, the religious funerary complex built by the Mamluk Sultan Faraj in the early 1400s.

Baybars Al-Jashankir, Sultan of Egypt, memorably said, “The people of Egypt aren’t satisfied except with the warrior coming out in full regalia and able body, with force is emanating from his ...

A view of the interior of the Mosque of Amir al-Maridani, dating from 1340 CE from the era of the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo, as Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities is to inaugurate the ...