IQTA' POLICY OF SULTAN BAYBARS I

The Mamluk state in Egypt and Syria inherited the iqta' system almost as it was in the Ayyubid period . Baybars I (1260-77), who obtained the power immediately after the battle of 'Ayn Jalut, organized his regime through the assignment of iqta's, in which there remained the Ayyubid traditions to no small extent. The next year of his enthronement, Baybars invested a relative of the Abbasids to the caliphate in Cairo, and in 1265 added the chief qadiships of the three leading law schools to the Shafi'ite one. On the other hand, he could externally achieve the brilliant military gains against the Mongols as well as against the Crusaders in Syria.