Have the Abbasids to take over Egypt (included with the Levant) and rule it directly. No Mamluk rule.
POD of 1258
POD of 1258
I guess I should say it like this: they are in Egypt already. What needs to happen that they become the rulers of the former Mamluk state?
Wasn't the core of the Abbasids always Mesopotamia? By the time of the Mamluks they had been puppets for centuries hadn't they?
Yeah but from what I understand they were never really popular in Egypt. A Baghdad based resurgence is more likely, though still unlikely. I guess one option would be if they take back power via a third party. Perhaps a proto-nationalist group in Egypt that dislikes the Mamluks' foreign heritage overthrows them and reinstalls the Caliph as the ruler of the government?Yeah, pretty much - that's why if they pulled it off it would be the comeback story for the ages.