al-Aziz Yusuf

Al-Aziz Yusuf ( Arabic العزيز جمال الدين يوسف, DMG al-ʿAzīz Ǧamāl ad-Dīn Yūsuf ; * 1424 ) was Sultan of the Mamluks in Egypt in 1438.

Life

Al-Aziz Yusuf was 14 years old when he succeeded his father, Sultan Barsbay, on June 7, 1438 . For the young Sultan led the powerful Emir Dschaqmaq , based on numerous Emirs and Sultans Mamluks and some other Mamluk groups, the government, however, a "against the citadels -party" formed by the Sultan that the Abbasids - Caliph al- Mu'tadid II (1414–1441), the treasurer, the army, a number of important emirs and the majority of the Mamluks included, all of whom were, however, inexperienced in government business as well as in warfare. When Jaqmaq stormed against the Cairo citadel with his Mamluks, his troops were shot down from there, but at the same time many Mamluks deserted the young sultan, who then requested a ceasefire. Jaqmaq was then sworn by the kadis to obey Sultan al-Aziz Yusuf and took over the administration of the empire, but stayed away from court service.

After some of the Egyptian emirs came to Cairo from Syria, they were arrested by Emir Qurqumas - but instead of the weakening of Jaqmaqs hoped for by Qurqumas, his position was strengthened by this measure, whereupon Jaqmaq encouraged Jaqmaq to depose Sultan al-Aziz Yusuf and himself the throne to climb - in the hope of turning the Aschrafi Mamluks, who are loyal to the Sultan, against him. But that also failed, and Emir Qurqumas was forced to openly support Jaqmaq in his pursuit of the sultanate.

Al-Aziz Yusuf was deposed on September 10, 1438, locked in the sultan's palace in Cairo and finally transferred to the prison in Alexandria, where, according to Ibn Taghribirdi, he spent his old age studying under very pleasant circumstances.

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• Jörg-Dieter Brandes: The Mameluks. The rise and fall of a slave despotism. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1996, p. 232.
• William Popper: History of Egypt 1382–1469 AD Part V, 1438–1453 AD Translated from the Arabic Annals of Abu l-Maḥasin Ibn Taghrī Birdī. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1954, pp. 1, 8-12, 15f., 18, 21-23.

predecessor	Office	successor
Barsbay	Sultan of Egypt ( Burji Dynasty ) 1438	Jaqmaq