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 China History Forum, chinese history forum > Battle of Ain Jalut 1260   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Jun 21 2005, 02:09 PM On 3rd Sept. 1260 at Ain Jalut ('Spring of Goliath'), the Mongols under Kitburga were defeated by the Marmeluke-Egyptian army of Baybars and Sultan Qutuz.
On 3rd Sept. 1260 at Ain Jalut ('Spring of Goliath'), the Mongols under Kitburga were defeated by the Marmeluke-Egyptian army of Baybars and Sultan Qutuz.
The battle were hard fought and according to legend around half of the troops on both sides died duing the fighting but Baybars won the field and chased the remaining Mongol troops back slaying even more.
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In the annals of mankind there are only a number of battles which have decided the fate of civilizations for decades or even for centuries to come.
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Abdul Malik, who was sick and was being carried in a litter, seeing that his forces were falling back and some of the tribesmen beginning to slip away, forgot his illness and insisted on being placed on a horse to rally his men.
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From the battle of 'Ayn Jalut in 1260 to the battle of Homs in 1281.
This is the first comprehensive study of the political and military aspects of the early years of the war, from the battle of 'Ayn Jalut in 1260 to the battle of Homs in 1281.
By drawing on previously untapped Persian and Arabic sources, the author sheds new light on the confrontation, examining the war within the context of Mongol/Mamluk relations with the Byzantine Empire, the Latin West and the Crusading states.
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2nd Homs, the follow-up battle for Ayn Jalut, pits the two great Eastern armies of the era against each other, in force: The Mamluks and the Mongols of the Ilkhan.
A massive, swirling cavalry battle so large that one wing never knew what was happening on the other wing, a factor which led to the Mongol downfall.
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Baybars, a Kipchak Turk and a Mamluk general in the service of the two Aybaks, Ali and Qutuz, captured King Louis IX of France, a Crusader later called St. Louis, in 1250, and stopped the Mongols in the battle of Ayn Jalut in Palestine in 1260.
The reason is that the Egyptians met them at Ain Jalut, forbidding their entrance to the Dark Continent.
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The battle itself was the turning point for the Mongols; after this defeat they retreated across the Muslim lands...
The battle of Ayn Jalut was one of the most decisive in history.
'Ayn Jalut meant the turn of the tide for Islam from a religious as well as a military point of view.
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 Medieval Egypt - The Islamization of Egypt
During this period Cairo was established as the capital of the country and became a centre of religion, learning, art, and architecture.
In 1260, the ruler, Qutuz, and his forces stopped the Mongol advance across the Arab world at the battle of Ayn Jalut in Palestine.
Because of this victory, Islamic civilization could continue to flourish when Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid caliphate, fell to the Mongols.
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 The Battle of Ayn' Jalut (1260)
The Battle of 'Ayn Jalut (September 8, 1260)
Ket Buqa Noyan goes to Egypt, does battle with the Egyptian army, and is killed.
He clashed with Ket Buqa and his several thousand cavalry, all experienced warriors, at Ayn Jalut.
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 Mamluks halt Mongol invasion at Battle of Ayn Jalut near Nazareth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Battle of Ain Jalut (or Ayn Jalut, the "Spring of Goliath") took place on September 3, 1260 between the Mameluks and the Mongols near Nazareth in Palestine.
They finally met at Ain Jalut on September 3, with both sides numbering about 20 000 men (the Mongol force, which was led by Kitbuqa, who is a described by some sources as a Christian Mongol general, was originally much larger, but Hulegu had taken most of it when he returned home).
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Moving west to enlarge his conquests, he sacked and burned Baghdad in 1258 (executing the last Abbasid caliph) and captured Aleppo and Damascus in 1260.
Further advances were checked by the Mamluks, who defeated him (Sept., 1260) at the decisive battle of Ayn Jalut (Goliath's Well) in Syria.
Hulagu withdrew to Azerbaijan, adopted Islam, and founded the Il-khan dynasty.
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 Welcome To Zir'in
Zir'in had a Mosque which was renovated by al-Zahir Baybars soon after the battle of 'Ayn Jalut.
Next to the village, the Egyptian Mamluks triumphed over the Mongols in the decisive battle of 'Ayn Jalut.
According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi, the village remaining structures on the village land are:
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 THE SWORDS OF FAITH Trilogy
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This may be the most important battle in world history that no one has ever heard of.
At the battle of Ain Julat, Muslim forces, with a vanguard commanded by future slave-soldier Sultan Baibars, stood as the last credible threat to Hulegu Khan’s advance further into the western world.
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 The Mongol Invasion of the Middle East   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Moving west to enlarge his conquests, he sacked and burned Baghdad in 1258 (executing its last Abbasid caliph) and then captured Aleppo and Damascus in 1260.
Further advances were checked by the Mamluks, who defeated the Mongols at the decisive battle of Ayn Jalut (Goliath’s Well) in Syria.
A more detailed analysis of the Mongol wars in the Middle East will be given in a forthcoming book by Peter Konieczny (editor of this website).
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 Description of future novel THE SULTAN AND THE KHAN, by author Richard Warren Field
Southwest of the coming cataclysm, an exiled slave-soldier named Baybars, a huge blue-eyed, brown-skinned Kipchak Turk, returns to Egypt.
Within three years, armies under the command of Baybars and Hulegu Khan will meet in a decisive battle at Ayn Jalut.
History will be made as a result of this confrontation between Mamluks (the slave-soldiers of Egypt and Syria) and Mongols.
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