al-Mansur Muhammad II

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Al-Malik al-Mansur Salah ad-Din Muhammad (II.) Ibn Hajji ( Arabic الملك المنصور صلاح الدين محمد بن حاجي, DMG al-Malik al-Manṣūr Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ḥāǧǧī ; * approx. 1347 ; † after 1363 ) was Sultan of the Mamluks in Egypt from 1361 to 1363 .

Since after the overthrow of Sultan an-Nasir al-Hasan in March 1361 there was no further son of an-Nasir Muhammad (I.) alive, the powerful Emir Yalbugha put one of his grandsons on the throne; It was Muhammad (II), the then about fourteen-year-old son of Sultan al-Muzaffar Hajji I.

Only a few months after this coup d'état, Baydamur, the vice-ruler of Damascus , rebelled against the murderer Sultan al-Hasan, but his rebellion quickly collapsed in the face of the rapid advance from Yalbugha into Syria . Yalbugha allowed Baydamur to retreat to Jerusalem - at the time primarily a retreat for disgraced but harmless political figures. Atabak al-Asakir Yalbugha had greater problems with the fact that his protégé, Sultan Muhammad II, soon turned out to be an outspoken libertine and not docile enough, despite his youth. In addition, the sadistic treatment of his concubines suggested mental illness. For this reason, Yalbugha deposed the prince in May 1363, sent him back to the harem and chose al-Ashraf Shaban as the new sultan.

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. 144.
predecessor Office successor
an-Nasir al-Hasan Sultan of Egypt ( Bahri Dynasty )
1361–1363
al-Ashraf Shaban