In 1300, Jerusalem faced its gravest threat since the Crusades: a Mongol army allied with Armenians and Crusaders was marching south. Lucas and Luna explore the forgotten siege of Jerusalem that never happened—because the Mamluks under Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad and the emir Qutlushah intercepted the Mongols at the Battle of Wadi al-Khaznadar near Homs. We examine the Ilkhanate of Ghazan Khan, the brief Mongol occupation of Syria, and the panic that gripped the Holy City. How did the Mamluks, exhausted from decades of war, rally to defend Jerusalem? And what did the Mongol invasion mean for the fragile Christian and Jewish communities living under Mamluk rule? This episode peels back a little-known chapter when Jerusalem stood on the edge of annihilation.
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