Summary

His name was Al-Malik al Zahir (meaning victorious) Rukn-al-Din (for pillar of the faith) Bybars al-Bundukari (of the crossbowman), but he was called Bybars.Long ago, in the thirteenth century, when Christian pilgrims clashed swords with heathen Muslims, he wielded his blade to become the most fearsome, most powerful Mamluke Sultan.But he was not always such. born a Seljuk of the Golden Horde of Batu Khan, this Turcoman was captured, then sold to an Egyptian as a slave. But Bybars would belong to no man. He would belong only to history as the man they called the Lion of Islam.