From Slave to Sultan: Baibars and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt

What happens when European Crusaders, Arab Muslims, Mongol Tengrists and Kipchak Turkic military slaves clash in the Middle East? The most interesting time period of the Middle Ages!
In the 13th century, the history of the Turkic peoples overlapped with that of many other cultures. Around the year 1250, this culminated in the clash of the Ayyubids of Egypt with the Crusaders from France and Cyprus. The Mamluks, military slaves of the Egyptian Sultan as-Salih, expelled the Crusaders and tookpower in the Sultanate. But as the Mongols launched their offensive into Baghdad and Syria, the hopes of Muslims - and manys Christians indeed - in the Orient rested on the Mamluks in Cairo.

With combined forces, the former-slaves turned heros Kutuz and Baibars, both Turks from the former empire of the Cumans and Kipchaks respectively, faced the Mongol threat under Hülegü in Syria.

Will they succeed in pushing the invaders back into the steppe? If so, at what cost? And how will these clashes affect the course of history?

Let's find out!