Baybars' campaign was to re-establish Shkanda. Followers of the Islamic conquests, so much so that some sources mention that "Amir Mustaqir" and Amir Izz al-Din al-Aqram led the campaign. They chose to impose Jizya on Nubia. Al-Maqrizi mentions this rebellion, so the Sultan ordered the accompanying forces. With this, they extracted from the Kharaj and Jizya in Dongola a Diwan. In addition to Shkanda's oath of allegiance, there was a copy prepared for the people of Nubia to swear allegiance to, and they committed to this oath. To obey the King of Nubia, the Sultan's deputy, as long as the Sultan of Egypt existed. It is said that the campaign's men destroyed the place that Dawud had used prisoners from Aydhab and Aswan to build, which he called Aydhab. This place had on its walls some images depicting the killing and capture of Muslims by Dawud in Aydhab and Aswan, and this indicated that Dawud was a fanatical Christian, hateful towards Muslims. Whatever the case, the Muslims removed all these traces after defeating Dawud, after the campaign had freed the prisoners from Aydhab and Aswan. They left Dongola in 674 AH/1276 AD, accompanied by twenty Nubian princes taken as hostages to ensure Nubia's fulfillment of its obligations to Egypt. It appears that the role of these subsequent Nubian princes was not limited to being mere hostages, but rather some Mamluk sultans later benefited from their presence in Egypt to alter the course of political events in Nubia in favor of Egypt and Mamluk authority, meaning that whenever a Nubian ruler rebelled, they would send one of those princes with a campaign to depose him and establish who was with the campaign. Furthermore, this campaign was extremely successful in removing that current of intensification and the Egyptian barrier that the Christian kings of Nubia had erected between 87