The blood of the Mamluks - Walid Fikri

Forty military coups - at least - in addition to failed attempts.. more than twenty sultans whose lives ended by assassination or execution or whose death was suspected of assassination.. conspiracies and counter-conspiracies among the princes themselves, or between them and the sultans.. this is a small part of the outcome of the unrest in the Mamluk era extending between the years 1250 AD and 1517 AD, during which the law of power transfer was the rule "rule to whoever overcomes," historically attributed to the just Ayyubid sultan.. about this burning era of events, about the ends of some sultans of the Mamluks who died by assassination or execution or in battles to defend their thrones.. about that long thread of Mamluk blood… we are talking about.. number of pages: 194 year of publication: 2016 publisher: Al-Riwaq for Publishing and Distribution