All posts tagged "mamluk"

Mashrabiyas sweep light across square halls, the corridors linking each room embellished with fine detailing and glassed...

Mornings are riper in Aleppo; vibrant with the afterglow of victory. Baybars basks in it, but remains...

Very few have not heard of them, for the Mamlūks are a daunting, elusive non-elite that demarcated...

The engineer of Egyptian modernity was not Egyptian – he was Ottoman. Muhammed Ali is a prolific...

The night is claustrophobic, and the king lay dead in his bed. French Crusaders are a volatile...

Across centuries, the Egyptian desert has bore witness to kings and prophets, messengers and messiahs, pariahs and...

A month on from the killing of George Floyd – an innocent Black man – at the...

Against the backdrop of the exquisite and glorious Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, with an entrance...