AMMAN — Coin design during the Mamluk Sultanate led to economic challenges, noted an American historian. Many scholars believe that sultans in the 14th and 15th centuries undervalued silver currency ...

The ceremonial helmet of Sultan al-Ashraf Kansu al-Ghuri, the last sultan of the Mamluk Sultanate, is now on display at the Diyarbakır Museum. Diyarbakır held a strategic position during the time of ...

AMMAN — Arab and Ottoman ruling elites and dynasties relied for centuries on the class of the slave-warriors called Mamluks, who were ethnically diverse and usually came from the Turkic, Caucasian, ...

Al-Malik Ath-Thahir Rukn Ad-Deen Baybars Al-Bunduqdari, was the most eminent of the Mamluk Sultans of Egypt and Syria, which he ruled from 1260 to 1277 CE. He is renowned both for his military ...

Between 1260 and 1400, the Mamluks transformed Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs into an exclusively Islamic sanctuary. Sultan Baibars’ 1266 decree banning Christians and Jews—limiting Jews to the ...

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 ...

At the Louvre Abu Dhabi, history unfolds with quiet grandeur as the museum opens its landmark exhibition, ‘Mamluks: Legacy of an Empire’, organized in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre. The show ...

Whereas TRANSLAPT’s other sub-projects investigate the role of translation within a particular genre of Ottoman Turkish literature, this sub-project focuses on the role of translation within the ...

Persian carpets are renowned around the world for their quality and intricate designs. However, they are not the only antique carpets from the Middle East that became famous for their exceptional ...