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What if the last independent Mameluke ruler, Kansu Al-Ghauri, attempted to align with the Ottomans rather than the Persians in the early 1500s?

Could this result in the Mameluke realms of Egypt, the Levant and western Arabia remaining independent of the Ottoman empire for a prolonged period? Could it prevent the later OTL conflation of the Ottoman Sultan with the Caliphate?

Would this allow the Ottomans to accomplish more militarily against Europe, the Persians or the Russians?

An initial sketch might work like this, the Mamelukes offer to align with the Ottomans to crush the Shiite heretics of Persia after Selim the Grim wins the battle of Chaldiran. The Mameluke ruler proposes that his Syrian forces move east to crush the Shiite heresy and beat the Safavids in Mesopotamia-Iraq, while the Ottomans continue to advance into Persia proper.

Might the Ottomans have gone for an arrangement like this?

This scenario is inspired by the OTL bandwagoning behavior of Khayr-al-Din "Barbarossa", pirate sultan of the Maghreb, who made the bet that he would be stronger and safer paying homage to the Ottomans rather than working against them.
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