ABSTRACT
Between 1265 and 1291 three Mamlūk Sultans, Baibars (1260-77), Qalawūn (1279-90) and al-Ashraf (1290-93), destroyed what was left of the Crusaders’ achievements. The main source for all three, although incomplete and for the most part still unedited, is the contemporary Ibn ‘Abd az-Zahir. For the conquests of Baibars we have his biography written by Ibn ‘Abd az-Zahir as well as the later chronicles of Ibn al-Furāt, al-Maqrizi and al-‘Aini. The passages given here, among them the famous victory letter to Bohemond IV after the fall of Antioch, come from these sources.
