Al-Mansur Ali ( ar, المنصور على, ''epithet'': ''al-Malik al-Manṣūr Nūr ad-dīn ʾAlī ibn Aybak'', Arabic: ) (b. c. 1242, Cairo) was the second of the
Mamluk Sultan
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s of
Egypt in the
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, line. Some historians, however, consider
Shajar al-Durr as the first of the Mamluk Sultans; thus, to them Al-Mansur Ali was the third Mamluk Sultan and not the second.
[(Shayal, p.115/vol.2.)] He ruled from 1257 to 1259 after the assassination of his father
Aybak during a turbulent period that witnessed the
Mongols invasion of the
Islamic world
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References
Bibliography
* Shayal, Jamal, Prof. of Islamic history
Tarikh Misr al-Islamiyah(History of Islamic Egypt), dar al-Maref, Cairo 1266,
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Bahri sultans
Egyptian nobility
Rulers deposed as children
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1242 births
Year of death missing
13th-century Mamluk sultans