mamluk

Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad under the rule of the Caliph al-Musta'sim was attacked by the Mongol prince Hulegu . The city was captured and the Caliph was executed by the Mongols. Despite this Al-Mustansir II and Al-Hakim I escaped to Cairo where they were appointed as Caliphs by the Mamluk...

what if Mamluk Egypt became a Gunpowder Empire like Ottomans and Safavids and leading to a three way balance of power in middle east

In 1516, Ottoman sultan Selim I "the Resolute" embarked on a conquest of the Mamluk Sultanate. He succeeded after less than two years, incorporating the Levant, Egypt and the Hejaz into the Ottoman Empire. Your challenge is to have his attempted conquest fail.

During the massacre of the Mamluks at the Cairo citadel, one captured Mamluk bey asked for a drink of water. When his hands were untied so he could take the bottle, he snatched a dagger from one of the soldiers and rushed at Muhammad Ali Pasha. Let's say he somehow succeeded in killing the...

Shortly after the Egyptian victory over a Crusader force at the Battle of Al Mansurah, Al-Muazzam Turanshah, the last Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt, alienated the Bahri Mamluks and constantly threatened them. Offended by his treatment of them and fearing he'd go after them, the Mamluks killed him and...

Sabur al-Amirí was a Andalusian ruler of possible Slavic origin who started out as a slave and rose to be the governor of Badajoz. When the Caliphate of Córdoba collapsed, Sabur established a Taifa in Badajoz and excercised control over the entirety of the former Roman province of Lusitania. In...

How could the Mamluks of Egypt, the Levant, Syria and the Hedjaz survive against ottoman expansion? If they do survive and manage to retain most of their territories, then what are the overall butterflies on... The Ottoman Empire's expansion? Persia and Mesopotamia? Colonialism in East Asia?

What if the Mamluk sultanate's history is like the Ottomans? Once a scourge to Christendom but then lost a lot of land and ended up being called "The Sick Man of Europe" or "The Sick Man of Africa"? Also, any good Mamluk TLs?

Chapter 1: The Failure of the Republican Experiment. Part 1: A Bad Wind. June, 1798. Malta. It is unknown what day it occurred. It was in all likeliness a day just like any other, on an island barely different from any other in the central Mediterranean. The year was not much different...

If the Fatimids had survived until the Ilkhanate, and were as capable as the Mamluks, how would the relations between Sunnis and Shias change?