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Mamluk–Ilkhanate Truce Talks
Around 1290 the Mamluk Sultanate and Ilkhanate probed ceasefire terms through envoys after years of war;…
Timeline
- 1290Syria · SyriaAfter repeated clashes in the 1280s, both the Mamluks and the Ilkhanate felt the war's toll was enormous; in 1290 the two exchanged envoys and documents exploring a ceasefire along the Syria–Mesopotamia border.
- 1290Cairo · EgyptAfter Qalawun's death, his son al-Ashraf Khalil succeeded him and maintained diplomatic channels with Arghun; but the two failed to reach a formal truce at the time, and the long Mongol–Mamluk confrontation continued into the early 14th century until the 1323 Treaty of Aleppo ended it.
Sources
- Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281 — Reuven Amitai-Preiss (1995)
- The Mongols in the Islamic Lands — Judith G. Kolbas (2006)