The battle occurred on February 2, 1251, on a stretch of land called al-Kura, near the town of al-Salihiyya on the eastern edge of the Nile Delta.

Also in the army were the cousins of Sultan an-Nasir Yusuf, the lord of Hama, al-Mansur II Muhammad, and the former ruler of Homs, al-Ashraf Musa.

But then a counterattack by Faris al-Din Aktay brought about the turning point, who held the position with his Bahriyya Regiment and ultimately routed the Syrian troops.

The militarily weakened an-Nasir Yusuf withdrew to Damascus and sought an alliance with the Crusader states in the Levant against the Mamluks of Egypt.

Even if this, under the reign of the French King Louis IX, did not enter into a formal alliance with him, this political maneuvering between Cairo, Damascus and Acre created a balance of power in the Orient for years to come.

Through the mediation of Caliph al-Musta'sim, this situation was deepened in a contract between Damascus and Cairo in April 1253, and Gaza was also returned to an-Nasir Yusuf.