Tumanbay, BBC Radio 4's news epic historical thriller series has begun its 10-week run. It's about History, court intrigue, assassinations, plots, betrayals, plague and insurrection, affecting ...
Beneath the verdant pools of Gan Ha-Shelosha lies a network of medieval tunnels that once powered the thriving sugar industry of the Mamluk Empire. Hewn into soft tufa rock along Nahal ‘Amal, the ...
AMMAN — During the Mamluk period, the area which is now modern-day Jordan was administratively divided between the Provinces of Karak and Damascus, noted an American professor. “Its people were known ...
Abdel-Dayem stated that handicrafts are an essential element which presents the glory of Egyptian heritage, and is an indicator to local art innovation and uniqueness. Islamic designs and Mamluk ...
The Battle of Chaldiran soon led to the region’s other pivotal battle of the era. Having secured his empire’s eastern flank, the Ottoman Sultan Selim I could turn his attention to the southwest, where ...
IN AUGUST 1516, on the plain of Marj Dabik in northern Syria, an Ottoman army smashed the forces of the Mamluk sultan of Cairo. The Turkish victory abruptly ended Cairo's 500-year domination of the ...
In DC Conversations, Dr. Souraya Noujaim, Director of the Department of Islamic Arts at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, takes us inside ‘Mamluks: Legacy of an Empire’—a groundbreaking exhibition at Louvre ...
In 1347 slave traders from the Black Sea brought with them something far deadlier than a cargo of future Mamluk warriors: the Black Death. Plague infested the whole of the known world, but nowhere was ...
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