The Fall and Rise of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate

In A.D. 1258 the Mongols conquered Baghdad and brought the Abbasid caliphate to an end. Three years later, however, under the aegis of the Mamluk sultan Baybars, the caliphate was resurrected, providing legitimacy to the sultan and the Mamluk state in general, both internally and in its foreign relations. The book under review here follows and analyzes in detail the whole process of the reestablishment of the caliphate, with particular emphasis on the Aleppan interlude. The study is based on a careful reading of the literary sources along with a comprehensive presentation of the numismatic material. The latter represents a third of the entire book, and constitutes an important study in its own right

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