The Battle That Stopped the Mongols: Ain Jalut 1260

Crescent & Monsoon

The battle of ain jalut — 3 September 1260 — was the moment the Mongols were stopped forever. This is the full story of how two slave soldiers, Qutuz and Baybars, led an army of former captives to save the Muslim world at the Spring of Goliath. In 1260, the Mongol Empire had never lost a major batt