Al-Malik al-Mansur Fakhr ad-Din Uthman ibn Jàqmaq, more simply known as Al-Mansur Uthman ( ar, المنصور فخر الدين عثمان بن جقمق, al-Malik al-Mansur Fahr ad-Dīn ʿ Uthman ibn Jaqmaq) was
Sultan
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of Cairo's
Mamluk
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Burji dynasty The Burji or Circassian Mamluk ( ar, المماليك الشركس) dynasty of Circassian origin, ruled Egypt from 1382 until 1517, during the Mamluk Sultanate. The Circassian community in Cairo especially flourished during this time. Political p ...
(1453).
Biography
At 80 years old, the death of
Sultan Jaqmaq allowed his son, Uthman (fathered from a Greek slave) to take the title of Al-Malik al-Mansur Fakhr ad-Din Uthman. His father named him Uthman after the
House of Osman to celebrate the Ottoman victory against the European Christians at the
Battle of Varna
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. At the beginning of his reign, he was whipped by his principal minister. After disputes with Amir on the amount of donations to various groups of
Mamelukes
Mamluk ( ar, مملوك, mamlūk (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural), translated as "one who is owned", meaning "slave", also transliterated as ''Mameluke'', ''mamluq'', ''mamluke'', ''mameluk'', ''mameluke'', ''mamaluke'', or ''marmeluke'') i ...
that had become a burden, street battles ensued between the groups of Mamelukes.
Inal al-Ajrud group and the Mamluks house Barquq occupied
Kalat al-Djabal (Fortress of the Mount). He was nominated as Sultan by the Abbasid Caliph of
Cairo
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and four
kadis with the title of Al-Malik al-Mansur Fakhr ad-Din. Uthman had no support and because of his behavior was deposed on 15 March 1453.
He was then imprisoned in
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...
until the reign of
Sayf ad-Din Khushqadam
Al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Sayf al-Dīn Abū Saʿīd Khushqadam ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Nāṣirī l-Muʾayyadī ( ar, الظاهر سيف الدين خشقدم; – 9 October 1467) was
a Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria from 28 June 1461 to 9 October 1467 ...
. He later returned to Cairo during the rule of
Qaitbay
Sultan Abu Al-Nasr Sayf ad-Din Al-Ashraf Qaitbay ( ar, السلطان أبو النصر سيف الدين الأشرف قايتباي) (c. 1416/14187 August 1496) was the eighteenth Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt from 872 to 901 A.H. (1468–14 ...
who was a Mamluk to his father, Jaqmaq. In 1469, he went to
Mecca
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to do
pilgrimage
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. Then he lived in
Damietta
Damietta ( arz, دمياط ' ; cop, ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ, Tamiati) is a port city and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt, a former bishopric and present multiple Catholic titular see. It is located at the Damietta branch, an easter ...
and studied ''
Fiqh
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The commands and prohibitions chosen by God were revealed through the agency of the Prophet in both the Quran and the Sunnah (words, deeds, and ...
''. He died in 1484 in Damietta and was later buried along with his father in Cairo.
Family
His only daughter was married to Azdumur al-Ibrahimi al-Zahiri Jaqmaq known as al-Tawil in 1474.
See also
*
History of Islam
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References
Sources
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* Encyclopaedia of Islam, Brill Publishers, Leiden, sv "Mamluks".
{{Mamluk Sultans of Egypt
1435 births
1484 deaths
Burji sultans
15th-century Mamluk sultans