al-Muzaffar Ahmad II

Al-Muzaffar Ahmad II ( Arabic المظفر أحمد بن الشيخ, DMG al-Muẓaffar Aḥmad b. aš-Šaiḫ ; born 1419 ; died 1430 ) was Sultan of the Mamluks in Egypt in 1421.

Al-Muzaffar Ahmad II became sultan with the death of his father al-Mu'aiyad Sheikh on January 13, 1421 at the age of 18 months. His mother was Princess Sa'adat, the daughter of the Emir Sarghitmisch, an Emir of Damascus . Even before the funeral of the deceased sultan, Emir az-Zahir Tatar consolidated his position within the Mamluk elite, and very soon he assisted the new little sultan in signing documents or often signed them himself.

Not all the emirs of the empire agreed with Tatar's reign, and the viceroy of Damascus rose against him, but was defeated and Tatar was able to enter Damascus victoriously with the sultan. He had numerous of his opponents imprisoned or killed, married Princess Sa'adat, the mother of the little sultan, and finally deposed him on August 29, 1421 in order to ascend the throne himself. Soon after, he divorced Sa'adat.

The two-year-old al-Muzaffar Ahmad II was brought back from Syria to Egypt, initially stayed in the Cairo Citadel , but was soon imprisoned with his younger brother Ibrahim in Alexandria , where he joined Ibrahim on January 26, 1430 and shortly afterwards the plague died. Both were first buried in Alexandria, then their two bodies were transferred to Cairo and buried in the tomb complex of al-Mu'aiyad Sheikh .

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• Jörg-Dieter Brandes: The Mameluks. The rise and fall of a slave despotism. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1996, p. 221.
• William Popper: History of Egypt 1382–1469 AD Part III, 1412–1422 AD Translated from the Arabic Annals of Abu l-Maḥasin Ibn Taghrī Birdī. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1954, pp. 122, 124, 130, 136f. and 142f.

predecessor	Office	successor
al-Mu'aiyad Sheikh	Sultan of Egypt ( Burji Dynasty ) 1421	az-Zahir Tatar