Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1250 daular Ayyubid ta yi rauni kuma ikon ya koma ga gwamnatin da Mamluks ke sarrafawa. Mamluks sojoji ne da aka saya a matsayin matasa bayi (sau da yawa daga yankuna daban-daban na Eurasia ta Tsakiya) kuma aka tashe su don su yi aiki a rundunar sultan. Sun zama babban jigon sojojin Ayyubid a karkashin Sultan al-Salih kuma daga karshe sun zama masu karfin iko don karɓar iko da jihar don kansu a cikin rikicin siyasa a lokacin Crusade na Bakwai. Tsakanin 1250 da 1517, kursiyin ya wuce daga daya mamluk zuwa wani a cikin tsarin maye gurbin da ba na gado ba ne, amma kuma sau da yawa tashin hankali da rikici. Duk da haka, Daular Mamluk ta ci gaba da fannoni da yawa na Daular Ayyubid kafin ta, kuma tana da alhakin dakile ci gaban Mongols a 1260 (wanda ya fi shahara a Yaƙin Ain Jalut
) da kuma kawo karshen karshe ga jihohin Crusader a Levant.