The Mameluke; or, Slave dynasty of Egypt, 1260-1517, AD . outset as explaining the origin andrise of the Leaders who were finally to crush the expiringefforts of that great armament of misguided Christianity. The Eiuyclopfcdia Britannica has an able article onEgypt which is especially valuable with reference to thelatter days and fate of the Mameluke race. The FrenchArchpeological Mission has also published several excellentnumbers on the period under consideration, with beautifulillustrations, of which I have ventured to borrow is also an interesting hrochurc by M. Max Herzon the C
The Mameluke; or, Slave dynasty of Egypt, 1260-1517, AD . outset as explaining the origin andrise of the Leaders who were finally to crush the expiringefforts of that great armament of misguided Christianity. The Eiuyclopfcdia Britannica has an able article onEgypt which is especially valuable with reference to thelatter days and fate of the Mameluke race. The FrenchArchpeological Mission has also published several excellentnumbers on the period under consideration, with beautifulillustrations, of which I have ventured to borrow is also an interesting hrochurc by M. Max Herzon the Cairo Museum, with an illustrated description ofits archreological contents. Lastly I have to express my thanks to YacoubArtin Pasha for publications regarding Cairo and theMameluke dynasty, and for photographs of ancient build-ings of which specimens are introduced into this Volume;and above all for the interesting Memorandum on the habitsof the Mamelukes, which will be found as Appendix the end of the book. W. M. Edinburgh University, London: Sniiiii Elder & C Zondon Oeog-Estaif- INTRODUCTION A BKIEF HISTOEICAL SKETCH OF THE CRUSADES {Taken from a Lecture delivered to the Students of theEdinburgh University in 1894.) Ix the Preface to the Bise, Decline, and Fall of the Caliphateis the following paragraph :•—- I may be permitted here to lament the want of any full andstandard work in our own language on the Crusades, and on theMameluke dynasty and its overthrow by the Osmanlies,—chaptersnot only deeply interesting in themselves, hut bound up with theinterests of the Eastern Churches and development of the j)olitica]relations of Europe, Asia, and Egypt. . ... I purpose inviting your attention to this subject,pointing out the present defect in our literature, indicatingthe sources from which it may be supplied, and offeringsome inducement toward the study. In our own language, Gibbons history of the period—bright and instructive as it is, and
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