659 AH
Three years after Baghdad falls, Baybars seats a surviving Abbasid prince as caliph in Cairo. The Mamluks hold the power; the caliphs give it their blessing.
How it touches Islam The Cairo caliphs lasted until 1517, when the Ottomans took the last of them to Istanbul.
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