Mamluk ‘Askari 1250–1517New archaeological material and research underpin this extensive, detailed and beautifully illustrated account of the famous Mamluk Askars. The Mamluk army is credited with finally defeating and expelling the Crusaders from the Middle East, with defeating and halting the Mongol invasion of the Islamic Middle East, and with facing down though not defeating Tamerlane. Their state was an essentially military one but was for centuries also the Protector