Al-Aziz Jamal al-Din Yusuf ( ar, العزيز جمال الدين أبو المحاسن يوسف بن برسباي) was the son of
Barsbay
Al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Dīn Bārsbay ( Circassian: Барасбий ал-Ашрэф Сэфудин) ( ar, الأشرف سيف الدين برسباي) was the ninth Burji Mamluk sultan of Egypt from AD 1422 to 1438. He was Circassian by birth and a ...
, and a
Mamluk sultan
Sultan (; ar, سلطان ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it ...
of
Egypt from 7 June to 9 September 1438.
Biography
Following Sultan Barsbay's death in 1438, his fifteen-year-old son Yusuf inherited the throne. However,
Jaqmaq who was his guardian orchestrated a scheme to remove him from power and seized the sultanate for himself. Yusuf who reigned for 94 days was imprisoned in
Cairo then in
Alexandria, where, according to
Ibn Taghribirdi, he spent the rest of his life studying under quite pleasant circumstances.
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Burji sultans
15th-century Mamluk sultans
1420s births
Year of death unknown
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