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Title: Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus:
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Margoliouth, David Samuel, 1858-1940. (from old catalog) Tyrwhitt, Walter Spencer-Stanhope, 1859-1932, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ietbais foundation is given by our guide in con-nection with this mosque; the writer of the deed wasto hâve a pension of thirty dirhems a month and threeloaves a day for the rest of his life. The story of Kansuh al-Ghuris accession showsthat the state of Egypt was generally unhealthy, andits easy conquest by a foreign power to be expected;for he was selected by the mutinous praetorians onthe remarkable ground that being a man of littlewealth and little influence, he could easily be de-posed; and indeed he stipulated that if they chose todépose him, his life was to be guaranteed. Once inpower he endeavoured by a variety of artifices toisolate the Emirs who were in control of affairs, andwhere more gentle means were unavailing, to employpoison. His reign was remarkable for a naval con-flict between the Egyptians and Portuguese, whosefleet interfered with the trade between India andEgypt; Kansuh caused a fleet to be built whichfought naval battles with the Portuguese with vary- ( 222 )
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LAST OF CIRCASSIAN MAMLUKES ing resuit. In 1515 there began the war with theOttoman Sultan Selim, which led to the close of thejMameluke period, and the incorporation of EgyptiWith its dependencies in the Ottoman Empire. Kan-suh was charged by Selim with giving the right ofway through Syria to the envoys of the SafawidIsmail, whose destination was Venice, where theyhoped to form a confederacy of west and east againstthe Turks. The actual déclaration of war was notmade by Selim till May, 1515, when ail his prépara-tions had been made; at the Battle of Marj Dabik,August 24, 1516, Kansuh was defeated by the Otto-man forces, and fell fighting. His body was left onthe battlefield and never was interred in his mauso-leum. His successor, Tumanbai, made a brave butuseless résistance to the Ottomans, who now invadedEgypt. The Mameluke rule had at no time been identifiedwith any national cause in Egypt, though the vie-tories of the first dynasty over the Crusaders had wonfor it the respect o

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