al-Muzaffar Hajji I.

Al-Malik al-Muzaffar Saif ad-Din Hajji (I.) ibn Muhammad ( Arabic الملك المظفر سيف الدين حاجي بن محمد, DMG al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Saif ad-Dīn Ḥāǧǧī b. Muḥammad ; * 1332 ; † 1347 in Cairo ) was 1346-1347 Sultan of the Mamluks in Egypt .

After his half-brother al-Kamil Schaban was deposed , Hajji was proclaimed Sultan in September 1346 and assumed the royal title of "al-Malik al-Muzaffar". The sultan , who was only fourteen years old, loved polo , torture and playing with carrier pigeons . He preferred the company of wrestlers from the lower class and racing pigeon breeders rather than that of his high-ranking emirs . When a delegation of emirs accused him of his bad rule, the story goes that he slaughtered a few pigeons before their eyes and then said that he would do the same with all those subjects who should cause him trouble.

The rise of the Emir Ghurlu, who specializes in financial management, continued under Hajji's rule, and on his advice the Sultan probably bought the loyalty of the royal Mamluks to the eunuch commander al-Sahrati. Ghurlu also urged the Sultan to increase the number of his own Mamluks by buying Circassian slaves (Ghurlu himself was Circassian). Ghurlu's efforts to concentrate all power in his hands and at the same time to eliminate possibly dangerous rivals, brought the powerful emirs under the leadership of the vice-regent Ariqtai an-Nasiri against him. He was removed from office and murdered during a prayer.

Sultan Pilgrimage Holiday I. did not long survive his favorite Ghurlu: Rumors about an upcoming, planned by the Sultan "cleansing" moving the leading emirs again to revolt and finally to assassinate al-Muzaffar Haddschis in December 1347. He was succeeded by another son Sultan Toggle Nasir Muhammad I on the throne - an-Nasir al-Hasan, who became famous for his grandiose mosque in Cairo .

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. 134.

predecessor	Office	successor
al-Kamil Shaban	Sultan of Egypt ( Bahri Dynasty ) 1346–1347	an-Nasir al-Hasan