Add/Update Information: Series - Al Zahir Baybars

Add/Update Information: Series - Al Zahir Baybars - 2005

Basic Details

Title	الظاهر بيبرس
Title in English	Al Zahir Baybars
Title's Translation	Al Zahir Baybars
Original Title
Release Year	2005
Runtime	45
Category	Series
Subcategory
Status	Released
Is this a coloured title?	Yes
Egyptian Censorship	All Ages
MPAA Censorship
Movie Budget	0
Poster
Trailer

Release Date

4 October 2005

Syria

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Genre

History
Drama

Country

Syria

Language

Arabic

Filming Locations

Social Media Links

Cast

Section Actor

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Abed Fahed	Al Zahir Baybars	1
2)	Suzan Najm Al Deen	Shajar Al Durr	2
3)	Basel Khayat	Sayf Al Din Qutuz	3
4)	Rafik Ali Ahmad	Fares Al Din Aktay	4
5)	Saad Mena	Ezz Al Din Aybak	5
6)	Lath El Mofty	Sayf Al Din Qalawun	6
7)	Bassem Qahar	Fares Al Din Aktay Al Mostaareb	7
8)	Mouhamed Zarzour	Al Monsef Al Mahdy	8
9)	Reem Zeno	Roqaya	9
10)	Nasser Wrdyany	Minister Ibn Al Alqami	10
11)	Riad Wardiani	Berke Khan	11
12)	Qamar Omaraia	Fatema	12
13)	Kinda Alloush	Tocoz	13
14)	Amer Al Ali	Louis IX	14
15)	Khaled Al Keesh	Zain Al Din Al Hafezi	15
16)	Eyad Abu Al Shamat	Mohye Al Din Ibn Abdel Zaher	16
17)	Mohammed Al Rashi	Abu Al Qassem Ibn Al Mustaasem	17
18)	Yassin Arnaaot	Badr Al Din Al Sawabi	18
19)	Ahmed Milly	Emad Al Saegh	19
20)	Bassam Dawoud	Robert I, Count of Artois	20
21)	Tarek Al Sabbagh	Al Mansour Aly	21
22)	Mohammed Al Ahmad	Abaqa Khan	22
23)	Marawan Abo Shahin		23
24)	Road Aliu	Daleela	24
25)	Noor Arnaoot (Noor Helal)	The Kidnapped Girl	25
26)	Bassel Haider	Harold	26
27)	Ramez Al Aswad	Haithoom	27
28)	Akram Al Halabi	Sharaf Al Din Al Faezy	28
29)	Ahmed Aslan	Al Muazzam Turanshah	29
30)	Yahya Beyazi	Edmund	30
31)	Shady Muqresh	Baiju	31
32)	Jamal Salloum	Nasser Al Din Al Qaimari	32
33)	Suhail Hadad		33
34)	Osama Halal		34
35)	Alaa Al Zuabi		35
36)	Hassan Isrb		36
37)	Basem Issa		37
38)	Ismail Madah		37
39)	Ghassan Massoud		38
40)	Sollaf Fawakhirgi		39
41)	Abdel Hadi Al Sabbagh		40
42)	Fayez Qazak		41
43)	Zuhair Abdel Karim		42
44)	Sulafa Memar		43
45)	Maxim Khalil		44
46)	Mustafa El Khani		45
47)	Qasim Melho		46
48)	Ali Elayan		47
49)	Hassan Younes		48
50)	Abdel Hakeem Qutaifan		49
51)	Nedal Nejem		50
52)	Nedal Sejary		51
53)	Abdul Rahman Al Rashi		52
54)	Mona Wassef		53
55)	Zinati Qudsia		54
56)	Tayseer Idris		55
57)	Vilda Sammour		56
58)	Jihad Saad		57
59)	Ali Al Qasim		101
60)	Mahmoud Mahdi Abbas		102
61)	Nageh Naeem		103
62)	Reyad Nahhas		104
63)	Fayez Abu Dan		105
64)	Adel Aly		106
65)	Abdullah Alio		107
66)	Jaber Jokhadar		108
67)	Faek Arksosi		109
68)	Mofid Abu Hamda		110
69)	Salim Shuraiqi		111
70)	Hayan Dawoud		112
71)	Mokhtar Kaeed		113
72)	Wissam Abu Hussein		114
73)	Hamza Ramadan	Child	115
74)	Zeyad Sharbak		116
75)	Tareq Halloum		117
76)	Abdel Azziz Al Amlah		118
77)	Dirgham Murqabi		119
78)	Daham Al Satam		120
79)	Khaled Hamad		121
80)	Rafeeq Samaan		122
81)	Nabeel Mrayesh		123
82)	Tariq Zuaiter		124
83)	Eid Al Abed		125
84)	Mahmoud Sawwan		126
85)	Hashem Aly		127
86)	Magd Ahmed		128
87)	Abdel Naser Marqaby		129
88)	Fawwaz Suror		130
89)	Adnan Al Sayed		131
90)	Feras Al Faqeer		132
91)	Wadei Daher		133
92)	Samer Shoqair		134
93)	Luqman Derki		135
94)	Khalil Ghoson		136
95)	Saeed Al Agha		137
96)	Kamel Nejma		138
97)	Adnan Abdul Jalil		139
98)	Fouad Wakil		140
99)	Salim Turkmani		141
100)	Yousuf Abu Hala		142

Section Director

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Mohammed Azizieh	Director	1
2)	Bassam Ktaefan	Executive Director	2
3)	Bashar Dahan	Assistant Director	3
4)	Rayed Teama	Co-director	4
5)	Clive Curtis	Battles Director	5

Section Graphic Designer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Fady Saleem	Graphics	5
2)	Mounir Al Marzouq	Graphics	6
3)	Shady Saleem	Graphic Tricks & Effects	7
4)	Ribal Aqili	Graphic Tricks & Effects	8

Section Producer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Kuwait Cable TV	Producer	6
2)	Hilal Arna'ut	Executive Producer	7
3)	EBLA International for Art Production	Producer	8
4)	Salah Teama	Production Director	9

Section Cinematographer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	George Lotfi Al Khoury	Director of Photography & Lighting	1
2)	Danny Issa	Photography	2
3)	Abdel Qader Al Atrash	Photography	4

Section Sound Engineer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Simon Abu Asali	Sound Effects & Mixing	1
2)	Moncef Taleb	Sound Engineer	4
3)	Abdel Hady Al Malek	Sound Effects & Mixing	5

Section Other

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Amer Fahed	General Supervision	4
2)	Ian Van Temperley	Training & Battles Design	4
3)	EBLA International for Art Production	Technical Operations	6

Section Art Director

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance
1)	Zeyad Kat	Art Director	4
2)	Anwar Zirkli	Art Director	5
3)	Hady Rezq	Accessories Supervisor	6

Section Costume Designer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options
1)	Rajaa Makhloof	Costume Design	3
2)	Khaled Tawfiq Tayan	Wardrobe Supervisor	4

Section Writer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options
1)	Ghassan Zakaria	Scriptwriter	1

Section Music Composer

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options
1)	Raad Khalaf	Soundtrack	2

Section Makeup Artist

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options
1)	Jalal Moayyerian	Make Up Artist	2

Section Editor

	Name	Role/Job	Order of appearance	Options
1)	Fady Saleem	Film editing	2

Section Distributor

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Section Stuntman

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Section Photographer

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Section Public Relations

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Section Laboratory

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Section Casting

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Section Dubbing

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Synopsis

Name	Synopses	Official ?	Options
Shaimaa Saied	The life and exploits of al-Zahir Baibars, Sultan of Egypt and the Levant, his journey from being a slave to Prince Ala’ al-Din al-Bunduqari, until he became sultan, and the many important events he was involved in, like the fall of Baghdad at the hands of Mongol commander Hulagu Khan, and the battle of Ain Jalut. 315

Summaries

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Plots

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Trivia

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Reviews

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Episodes

Season	Episode	Duration	Title	Summaries
1	1	45	1st Episode	In the thirteenth century AD, members of the families of the...Read more Turkmen tribes were sold in the markets of the Abbasid state as slaves, including al-Zahir Baibars. Fakhr ad-Din asks Ala’ al-Din to fortify his city for fear of Ismail's plan to turn against him and the sultan. 273
1	2	45	2nd Episode	Baibars is sold to Prince Ala’ al-Din Idikin al-Bunduqari....Read more Faris is appointed to lead the sultan's army against Ismail, while Daoud and Ismail discuss a plan to eliminate Faris’s army. 184
1	3	45	3rd Episode	Baibars rises to a higher status and becomes one of Ala’...Read more al-Din's most important advisors despite being a slave. Richard stipulates that as-Saleh Ismail gives him Jerusalem in the event of an alliance with him in the war against the sultan. 241
1	4	45	4th Episode	Ismail’s army retreat in front of Najm al-Din Ayyub’s army,...Read more and the latter orders Faris to go to Damascus and arrest Ismail, whereupon Ismail is taken to Najm al-Din as a captive. Najm al-Din removes 'Alā’ al-Dīn from office, and Baibars is arrested and deported to Cairo. 272
1	5	45	5th Episode	Baibars arrives in Cairo as a captive and engages in a duel...Read more with Qutuz in front of al-Malik as-Saleh Najm al-Din, who’s impressed by Baibars’s strength and decides to make him join the army. 190
1	6	45	6th Episode	During the war between the Muslims and the Crusaders, Najm...Read more al-Din Ayyub dies, while the Frankish army continues to advance to Mansoura, and Qutuz decides to hide Najm al-Din's death, fearing for the army's morale. 213
1	7	45	7th Episode	Turan-Shah succeeds Najm al-Din, while Baibars becomes the...Read more emir of one of the sultan's armies. Qutuz is concerned about Turan-Shah's collusion with the Frankish army. 166
1	8	45	8th Episode	Baibars and Qalawun as-Ṣalihi attack and kill Turan-Shah,...Read more whereupon Shajar al-Durr ascends the throne of Egypt. Baibars warns her of a revolution as a response to a woman’s ruling Egypt, so she marries Izz al-Din Aybak and abdicates the throne to him. 251
1	9	45	9th Episode	An-Nasir Yusuf, the ruler of Aleppo, declares war on Izz...Read more al-Din Aybak and Shajar al-Durr, while Aktai tries to warn Izz al-Din of Shajar al-Durr's control over him. 164
1	10	45	10th Episode	Izz al-Din Aybak orders Qutuz to kill Fakhr ad-Din on...Read more charges of conspiring against him, while an-Nasir Yusuf asks for Baibars’s help to eliminate Aybak, who is surprised by an-Nasir Yusuf’s peace proposal. 206
1	11	45	11th Episode	With the Tatars’ advancing into Samarkand and approaching to...Read more the Levant, Baibars objects to an-Nasir Yusuf's desire to send a delegation to the Tatar leader to call a truce. Shajar al-Durr kills Izz al-Din Aybak and tries to cover up what she did by nominating Qutuz to rule. 275
1	12	45	12th Episode	As Qutuz refuses to rule with Shajar al-Durr as a...Read more puppetmaster, Izz al-Din’s son is chosen to succeed his father, while Qutuz becomes his deputy and legitimate successor. The entourage starts driving a wedge between Ali and Qutuz, whereupon Shajar al-Durr gets killed. 268
1	13	45	13th Episode	Qutuz fears Baibars’s plotting a conspiracy in the Levant to...Read more march to Egypt and kill him because he banished him and killed Aktai, and the pair become on the verge of an imminent confrontation, while an-Nasir Yusuf consolidates his relationship with Hulagu’s army. 264
1	14	45	14th Episode	Qutuz regrets banishing Baibars and killing Aktai. The...Read more Commander of the Faithful, Al-Musta'sim, offers to surrender Baghdad to Hulagu and make a treaty with him, but Hulagu turns against him and orders that he be put in a cowhide and beaten to death. 250
1	15	45	15th Episode	As Baibars and Qutuz refuse to duel each other, Baibars...Read more decides to withdraw from the battle. Qutuz orders Ali's blessing to execute all the Kurdish prisoners. Baibars meets his sweetheart, Ruqayya, after years of searching for her. 231
1	16	45	16th Episode	Hulagu's siege of Damascus continues for more than eight...Read more months without being able to enter it. Baibars carries out individual operations, through which he destroys Hulagu's army's weapons and kills more than 100 soldiers on his own. 233
1	17	45	17th Episode	Baibars promises to marry Ruqayya, and orders the servants...Read more to take care of her in his absence. Hulagu divides his army into three divisions to bring down Damascus. Qutuz calls on the people and the army to depose Ali so he’d take the position of sultan in his stead, and it works out. 284
1	18	45	18th Episode	Baibars refuses to make peace with Hulagu, whereupon he...Read more prepares for an imminent confrontation with the Tatar army as it tries to enter Damascus. Qutuz's popularity increases as sultan. 185
1	19	45	19th Episode	As Ruqayya is found murdered in Yusuf's bedroom, Baibars...Read more decides to take revenge on him, but he convinces him that he didn’t kill Ruqayya, accusing Zain ad-Din of plotting to come between them. 193
1	20	45	20th Episode	As Baibars sends a letter to Qutuz, stating his wish to host...Read more him with his army in Egypt, he agrees. An-Nasir Yusuf tries to kill himself, but the doctor saves him. Qutuz and Baibars meet after years of estrangement. 215
1	21	45	21st Episode	When an-Nasir Yusuf gets captured by Kitbuqa, he manages to...Read more steal a guard’s sword and kill himself. Hulagu sends a letter to Qutuz, threatening him and ordering him to surrender to the Tatar army. 196
1	22	45	22nd Episode	As Hulagu orders Kitbuqa to march to Cairo and eliminate...Read more Qutuz and his army, Qutuz and Baibars plan to lure Hulagu's army to the area of Ain Jalut and wipe out his army. Baibars manages to defeat Kitbuqa's army and kill him. 224
1	23	45	23rd Episode	Hulagu puts his son at the head of an army of 2000 horsemen...Read more to attack Qutuz's army and take revenge. Faris ad-Din warns Qutuz of Baibars and asks him to go along him. 166
1	24	45	24th Episode	Qutuz tries to win the affection of Baibars, who hasn’t...Read more forgotten his killing of Aktai, by giving him the rule of Aleppo after the end of the war against Hulagu. A battle takes place between Baibars and some of the Mamluks on one side and Qutuz on another, whereupon the latter gets killed. 290
1	25	45	25th Episode	Baibars is installed as Sultan of Egypt and the Levant after...Read more the killing of Qutuz. Hulagu refuses to listen to his daughter, Tokoz, and insists on attacking Baibars's army and killing him. Sayf ad-Din Qalawun is appointed as commander of the army in Egypt, and Faris ad-Din Aktai (the Arabist) as Baibars's deputy. 314
1	26	45	26th Episode	As Baibars and Sayf ad-Din Qalawun prepare to march with...Read more their army to meet the army of Hulagu’s son, Baibars emerges victorious again, whereupon Hulagu's cousin, Berke Khan, offers to form an alliance with Baibars and the Mamluks. 231
1	27	45	27th Episode	Baibars prepares his army to invade Beirut in case its...Read more ruler, Isabella, refuses to surrender to him. Abaqa Khan takes over the Tatar army after Hulagu's death. Baibars marries Turhan. 183
1	28	45	28th Episode	A poor woman turns to Baibars, asking him to free her...Read more daughter, who was kidnapped by the Franks and Isabella. Orlando and Abaqa ally with Isabella against Baibars, who succeeds in freeing the girl. 197
1	29	45	29th Episode	Baibars begins to march with his army to Beirut, where he...Read more emerges victorious, and Isabella becomes his captive. Years pass by and Baibars has a son, Al-Said Barakah. 165
1	30	45	Finale	A series of compiled clips showing all the rulers, all the...Read more way to Baibars, whose story ends with him being killed while spending time with his young son. 153