Ruler · died 1260
Qutuz
Mamluk sultan of Egypt who refused to submit to Hulagu and led the army that beat the Mongols at Ain Jalut. He was assassinated on the way home a few weeks later.
At a glance
- Lived
- died 1260
- Role
- Ruler
- Era
- The Mongol storm
- Chapter
- 3. The Abbasids, the Crusades and the Mongols
Battles
- 1260Battle of Ain Jalut
Decisive Mamluk victory. On 3 September 1260 the Mamluks used a feigned retreat to trap the Mongol army, and Kitbuqa was killed.
Qutuz's world
1260: The Mongol storm
Genghis Khan destroyed the Khwarazmian empire between 1219 and 1221. His grandson Hulagu took the fortress of Alamut in 1256 and Baghdad in February 1258. The last Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, al-Musta'sim, was put to death on Hulagu's orders, by most accounts rolled in a carpet and trampled.
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