Qutuz was a Turkic prince from Persia,[6][7][8] captured by the Mongols during the fall of the Khwarazmian dynasty c. 1231, he was taken to Damascus where he was sold to an Egyptian slave merchant who then sold him to Aybak, the Mamluk sultan in Cairo. According to some sources, Qutuz claimed that he was descended from Ala ad-Din Muhammad II, a ruler of the Khwarazmian Empire.[9]Mongols sacked Baghdad in 1258He became the most prominent Mu'izi Mamluk of Sultan Aybak,