Episodes: Series - Al Zahir Baybars - 2005

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In the thirteenth century AD, members of the families of the 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.

Baibars is sold to Prince Ala’ al-Din Idikin al-Bunduqari. Faris is appointed to lead the sultan's army against Ismail, while Daoud and Ismail discuss a plan to eliminate Faris’s army.

Baibars rises to a higher status and becomes one of Ala’ 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.

Ismail’s army retreat in front of Najm al-Din Ayyub’s army, 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.

Baibars arrives in Cairo as a captive and engages in a duel 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.

During the war between the Muslims and the Crusaders, Najm 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.

Turan-Shah succeeds Najm al-Din, while Baibars becomes the emir of one of the sultan's armies. Qutuz is concerned about Turan-Shah's collusion with the Frankish army.

Baibars and Qalawun as-Ṣalihi attack and kill Turan-Shah, 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.

An-Nasir Yusuf, the ruler of Aleppo, declares war on Izz al-Din Aybak and Shajar al-Durr, while Aktai tries to warn Izz al-Din of Shajar al-Durr's control over him.

Izz al-Din Aybak orders Qutuz to kill Fakhr ad-Din on 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.

With the Tatars’ advancing into Samarkand and approaching to 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.

As Qutuz refuses to rule with Shajar al-Durr as a 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.

Qutuz fears Baibars’s plotting a conspiracy in the Levant to 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.

Qutuz regrets banishing Baibars and killing Aktai. The 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.

As Baibars and Qutuz refuse to duel each other, Baibars 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.

Hulagu's siege of Damascus continues for more than eight 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.

Baibars promises to marry Ruqayya, and orders the servants 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.

Baibars refuses to make peace with Hulagu, whereupon he prepares for an imminent confrontation with the Tatar army as it tries to enter Damascus. Qutuz's popularity increases as sultan.

As Ruqayya is found murdered in Yusuf's bedroom, Baibars 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.

As Baibars sends a letter to Qutuz, stating his wish to host 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.

When an-Nasir Yusuf gets captured by Kitbuqa, he manages to 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.

As Hulagu orders Kitbuqa to march to Cairo and eliminate 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.

Hulagu puts his son at the head of an army of 2000 horsemen to attack Qutuz's army and take revenge. Faris ad-Din warns Qutuz of Baibars and asks him to go along him.

Qutuz tries to win the affection of Baibars, who hasn’t 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.

Baibars is installed as Sultan of Egypt and the Levant after 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.

As Baibars and Sayf ad-Din Qalawun prepare to march with 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.

Baibars prepares his army to invade Beirut in case its ruler, Isabella, refuses to surrender to him. Abaqa Khan takes over the Tatar army after Hulagu's death. Baibars marries Turhan.

A poor woman turns to Baibars, asking him to free her daughter, who was kidnapped by the Franks and Isabella. Orlando and Abaqa ally with Isabella against Baibars, who succeeds in freeing the girl.

Baibars begins to march with his army to Beirut, where he emerges victorious, and Isabella becomes his captive. Years pass by and Baibars has a son, Al-Said Barakah.

A series of compiled clips showing all the rulers, all the way to Baibars, whose story ends with him being killed while spending time with his young son.