ABSTRACT
As indicated previously, despite their vigorous prosecution of the military jihad against the Franks, the Mamluks also made periodic treaties and peace agreements with them as circumstances dictated. The following extracts are drawn from a treaty made by Qalawun with Margaret, the Lady of Tyre, in 1285. The text of the treaty is found in a biography of Qalawun written by the head of his royal chancery, Ibn ‘Abd al-Zahir (d. 1293), entitled Tashrif al-Ayyam wa-l-‘Usur fi Sirat al-Malik al-Mansur (The Honouring of Days and Ages concerning the Biography of al-Malik alMansur [Qalawun’s regnal title: the King Aided by God]). For a fuller discussion of this treaty, including a translation of the complete text, see P.M. Holt, Early Mamluk Diplomacy (1995), pp. 106-17.
