Hi, I am having a hard time finding a good book that gives the life of either Qutuz or Baibars. I want to know more about this period of history, and I figure a bio about one or the other would tell the story how I want to read it. However there doesn't seem to be a good available book on the two of them.
Books I have found are the Lion of Egypt, which is a Baibars bio. The book is unavailable to me, and I cannot afford it.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3083291-the-lion-of-egypt
Another is the The Sultans, Part 3 which is the end of the end of Qutuz and the start of Baibars. I cannot find part one or two, I think they are written in Arabic and not translated to English. Has anyone read this book? Does it cover the 7th Crusade?
https://www.amazon.com/Sultan-Book-Three-Baibars-Trilogy/dp/1595946063
There are a few others I came across, but I cannot find a good source. Can someone suggest a good book?
The latest very detailed overview of the topic, Peter Jackson, The Mongols and the Islamic World from Conquest to Conversion, New Haven: Yale UP, 2017 includes mass of the related bibliography, though his book primarily employs the primary sources produced in Ilkhanate realm. Alternatively, you can consult with the classic monograph, Reuven Amitai-Preiss, Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260–1281, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995, though neither of them are not biographies deal with Mamluk Egypt (perhaps mainly due to the relative dearth of the contemporary narrative texts from this area).