At a glance
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
Summary
In 674 AH the sultan al-Zahir Baybars sent an army to Nubia and Dongola. They were victorious; the king of Nubia was captured and sent to the sultan, and a poll tax was placed on the people of Dongola. 2
Earlier attempts
The source relates from al-Dhahabi that Nubia was first attacked in 31 AH, when Abdallah ibn Abi Sarh raided it with five thousand horsemen. He made a truce with its people and returned without conquering it. It was attacked again in the time of Hisham and in the time of al-Mansur; then Takin the Turk, Kafur al-Ikhshidi and Nasir al-Dawla ibn Hamdan attacked it, and then Turanshah, brother of Saladin, in 568 AH. It had not been conquered until this year. 2
Ibn Abd al-Zahir said of this: "This conquest was witnessed with the eye, not something known only from chains of transmission." 2
Connections
- Had participant
- al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars
People and things also explored
The battle of Ayn Jalut and the defeat of the Tatars· Baybars takes Jaffa, Beaufort and Antioch, 666· Baybars takes Caesarea and Arsuf, 663· 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
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 728
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.728
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islam.museum contributors. “The Conquest of Nubia and the Capture of the King of Dunqula”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/nubia-conquest-674/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.