al-Mansur Ali II.

Al-Malik al-Mansur Ala ad-Din Ali (II.) Ibn Shaban ( Arabic الملك المنصور علاء الدين علي بن شعبان, DMG al-Malik al-Manṣūr ʿAlāʾ ad-Dīn ʿAlī b. Šaʿbān ; * before 1377; † 1382 in Egypt ) was Sultan of the Mamluks in Egypt from 1377 until his death in 1382 .

After the murder of Sultan al-Ashraf Shaban in March 1377, his son Ali, who was still a child, was put on the throne by the murderers of his father. The power in the country remained with the Mamluk emirs, who were once recruited by Emir Yalbugha. During these years, small, undisciplined hordes of individual emirs fought each other in the streets of Cairo . In Syria , the Vice-Regency of Damascus , Tashtimur al-Alai (al-ʿAlāʾī) , was the dominant figure. Under Sultan Schaban II, he still held the office of dawadar (for example, "bearer of royal writing utensils") until he fell out of favor due to his involvement in a prematurely uncovered conspiracy against the Sultan. The already influential emir and later Sultan Barquq increased his power by marrying Tashtimur's daughter. The following year he intrigued with his father-in-law's Mamluken against the Damascus vice-regent and imprisoned him. In 1376 he was appointed Atabeg (Commander in Chief) of the Army and arrested and killed his one-time ally, Emir Barak, the leader of the Yalbugha Mamluks.

Normally the beginning of the Circassian Burji dynasty is set in the year 1382, but in fact Yalbughas Mamluks controlled the affairs of state since the 1360s and the Circassian Barquq was not sultan in anything only in name since 1376. When al-Mansur Ali died of an illness in May 1382, Barquq replaced him with another descendant from the Qalawun dynasty , the underage al-Salih Hajji II.

literature

• Robert Irwin : The Middle East in the Middle Ages. The Early Mamluk Sultanates 1250-1382. ACLS History E Book Project, New York NY 2008, ISBN 978-1-59740-466-2 , p. 149.

predecessor	Office	successor
al-Ashraf Shaban	Sultan of Egypt ( Bahri Dynasty ) 1377–1382	al-Salih / al-Mansur Hajji II.