Baybars al-Mansoori (''Rukn ad-Dīn Baybars ad-Dawadar al-Manṣūrī al-Khaṭaʾī.'' d. 1325) was a

mamluk 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'') ...

(slave soldier) in the service of

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Al-Mansur Qalawun ( ar, قلاوون الصالحي, – November 10, 1290) was the seventh Bahri Mamluk sultan; he ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1290. He was called (, "Qalāwūn the Victorious"). Biography and rise to power Qalawun was a Kipchak, ancient Turkic ...

. He is the author of a historiographical work, known as ''Zubdat al-fikra fi ta'rīkh al-hijra'' ("quintessence of thought in Muslim history"). He was purchased from the prince of Mosul in c. 1260 and participated in several of Qalawun's campaigns during the reign of sultan

Baibars Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari ( ar, الملك الظاهر ركن الدين بيبرس البندقداري, ''al-Malik al-Ẓāhir Rukn al-Dīn Baybars al-Bunduqdārī'') (1223/1228 – 1 July 1277), of Turkic Kipchak ...

(d. 1277). In 1284, he was given command of fifty horsemen. In 1287, he was appointed governor of

Al Karak Al-Karak ( ar, الكرك), is a city in Jordan known for its medieval castle, the Kerak Castle. The castle is one of the three largest castles in the region, the other two being in Syria. Al-Karak is the capital city of the Karak Governorate. ...

, a post which he held until Qalawun's death in 1290. He was ''amir al-hajj'' in 701 AH (1302). His ''Zubda'' is a universal chronicle which ends just prior to his death. A second work, ''Al-Tuhfa al-mulukiyya fi l-dawla al turkiyya'', is based on the ''Zubda'' and covers only the Bahri period, 1250–1325. The ''Zubda'' is by far the more informative work, but the ''Tuhfa'' contains some original content as well. Both works rely heavily on Ibn Abd al-Zahir. Both works were written with the help of the Coptic scribe

Ibn Kabar Ibn Kabar (''Shams al-Riʾāsa Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar'', d. 1324) was a Coptic Christian author of an ecclesiastical encyclopedia known as ''Mișbâḥ al-ẓulma''. He was secretary to the Mamluk minister Baybars al-Manșûrî, presumably e ...

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References

*Margoliouth, D. S., "Baibars, al-Manṣūrī al-Khaṭaʾī."

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I (1913), 590 * Ashtor, E., "Baibars al-Mansuri",

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I, 1127f. *Ashtor, E. trauss, E."Baibars al-Manṣūrī und Ibn al-Furāt als Geschichtsquellen für die erste Periode der Baḥrīmamluken." Ph.D. diss., University of Vienna, 1936. *Linda Northrup, ''From Slave to Sultan: The Career of Al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn and the Consolidation of Mamluk Rule in Egypt and Syria (678-689 A.H./1279-1290 A.D.)'', Freiburger Islamstudien 18, Franz Steiner (1998)
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ndash;40. *Richards, D. S., "A Mamluk Amir's Mamluk History: Baybars al-Manṣūrī and the Zubdat al-Fikra." i: ''The Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800)'' eds. Kennedy, Hugh, Brill, 2001, 37–44. *Richards, D. S., "Baybars al-Manṣūrī (d. 725/1325)." in: ''Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature'', eds. by Scott Meisami, Julie//Starkey, Paul Routledge (1998), p. 144. *Saleh, Abdel Hamid. "Un mot sur Baybars al-Mansurī et son œuvre, la Tuḥfa." Annales islamologiques/Ḥawlīyāt Islāmīyah 20, (1984): 55–60. * {{authority control Mamluks 1325 deaths 13th-century Egyptian people 14th-century Egyptian people Egyptian Muslim historians of Islam