From Slave to Sultan: The Career of Al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn and the Consolidation ... - Linda Northrup - Google Books

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Spanning the greater part of the thirteenth century, the career of the Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, al-Mansur Qalawun, is of great interest for the light it sheds on the major themes of early Mamluk history: the emergence of a new political and…