Having given the #MongolEmpire a first major loss in the #BattleOfAinJalut in 1260, #Egypt's #MamlukSultanate surprised the #Ilkhanate by attacking & winning the #BattleOfMarjAlSaffar near #Damascus, #ThisDayInHistory in 1303. #IbnTaymiyyah's sketchy #jihad fatwas played a part.

Showing again its mastery of the early-modern Mediterranean, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1517 the #OttomanEmpire under #SelimI defeated the #MamlukSultanate under slave-sultan #TumanBayII in the #BattleOfRidaniya. İstanbul held Egypt (loosely) until the British Protectorate of 1914.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1516, the #MamlukSultanate in Egypt lost the #BattleOfYaunisKhan at #KhanYunis in the #GazaStrip. The victorious #OttomanEmpire found the way clear to toppling the Mamluks and claiming Egypt's wealth. #Ottoman power went largely unchallenged for centuries.