Collapse of the Mamluk Sultanate

To call the protection racket that the Mamluks have been running in Egypt and the Levant a state would be a generous assessment, to say the least. That their rule has lasted so long is a miracle to behold. Now, however, in our most recent round of conflict with them, the armies of our great Sultan have cut a swath of law and order through Syria and down into Egypt. Moreover, now that their capital has fallen to our forces, the Mamluk administration has all but collapsed in their lands, and no real central government remains to oppose us in seizing the entirety of the Sultanate's lands for ourselves. No doubt, however, our immediate seizure of all of these lands would require reliance on local power brokers, and the integration of the Sultanate's lands into our administration would be a Herculean feat.