Ayn Jālūt, Battle ofʿ

Ayn Jālūt, Battle ofʿ

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ʿAyn Jālūt also spelled  Ain Jalut 

      (Sept. 3, 1260), decisive victory of the Mamlūks of Egypt over the invading Mongols, which saved Egypt and Islām and halted the westward expansion of the Mongol empire.

      Baghdad, the capital city of the ʿAbbāsid caliphate, had fallen to the Mongols under the Il-Khan Hülegü in 1258, and the last ʿAbbāsid caliph had been put to death. In 1259 the Mongol army, led by the Christian Turk Kitbuga, moved into Syria, took Damascus and Aleppo, and reached the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

      The Mongols then sent an envoy to Cairo in 1260 to demand the submission of Quṭuz, the Mamlūk sultan, whose reply was the execution of the envoy. The two powers then prepared for battle.

      Kitbuga and his Mongol army, a small detachment of about 10,000 men, were lured into a trap at ʿAyn Jālūt (“Spring of Goliath”), near Nazareth, in Palestine, by a much larger Mamlūk force commanded by Baybars (Baybars I). The Mongols were destroyed, and Kitbuga was captured and killed. The Mamlūk victory was followed up by Muslim Syria, which then drove out its Mongol garrisons. Hülegü was unable to take reprisals, as he was preoccupied with an internal struggle for power within the Mongol empire, forcing him and much of his army to return to inner Asia. The Mongol empire was thus contained in Iran and Mesopotamia, leaving Egypt secure in Muslim Mamlūk hands.

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