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Baybars takes Caesarea and Arsuf, 663

فتح بيبرس قيسارية وأرسوف سنة 663هـ

c. April 1265 CE · c. Jumada I 663 AH

In 663 Baybars besieged Caesarea and stormed it — the citadel held out days, then fell — then invested Arsuf and took it by the sword in Rajab; that Shawwal he enthroned his five-year-old son al-Malik al-Sa'id in full royal pomp 1.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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1250126012701280 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Sultan Baybars came in 663 AH, besieged Caesarea and took it by storm. The citadel resisted for some days and was then taken. He then attacked Arsuf and took it by the sword in Rajab. He then returned and had his son al-Malik al-Saʿid proclaimed sultan in Shawwal, and had him ride in royal splendour at the age of five 2.

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Had participant
al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars

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The battle of Ayn Jalut and the defeat of the Tatars· Baybars takes Jaffa, Beaufort and Antioch, 666· Baybars raids Cilicia, 673· Death of al-Zahir Baybars, 676· Baybars takes Hisn al-Akrad and Akkar, 669· Baybars takes Safed, 664· Baybars takes the sultanate, 658 AH· The Euphrates crossing to relieve al-Bira, 671

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 541
  2. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p.541
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The battle of Ayn Jalut and the defeat of the Tatars

In 658 the Tatars crossed the Euphrates, put Aleppo to the sword and reached Damascus; the Egyptians marched that Sha'ban, al-Muzaffar leading with Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari his shalish — they met the Tatars at Ayn Jalut on Friday 15 Ramadan and routed them utterly, the first great breaking of their tide. The rejoicing flew to Damascus; Baybars drove them beyond Aleppo — promised the city, then refused it — the germ of their falling-out.