Burji Mamluk dynasty seizes power in Cairo

1382

Barquq, a Circassian slave-soldier, overthrew the last Bahri sultan and established the Burji Mamluk line that would rule Egypt and Syria for 135 years. The transfer was less a revolution than a palace coup - one slave caste replacing another - but it shifted power from Turkic to Circassian hands and reshaped court culture.