Al-Aziz_Jamal_ad-Din_Yusuf

Al-Aziz Jamal al-Din Yusuf

Al-Aziz Jamal al-Din Yusuf

Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 7 June 1438 – 9 September 1438)

Al-Aziz Jamal al-Din Yusuf (Arabic: العزيز جمال الدين أبو المحاسن يوسف بن برسباي) was the son of Barsbay, and a Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 7 June to 9 September 1438.[1][2]

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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.[3] 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.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Margoliouth, David Samuel (1911). "Egypt/3 History" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 80–130, see page 102. ...on the 7th of June 1438. In accordance with the custom of his predecessors he left the throne to a son still in his minority, Abu'l-Mahāsin Yūsuf, who took the title Malik al-'Azīz, but as usual after a few months he was displaced by the regent Jakmak, who on the 9th of September 1438 was proclaimed sultan
  2. [2]
    Eduard von Zambaur (1980). معجم الأنساب والأسرات الحاكمة في التاريخ الإسلامي للمستشرق زامباور (in Arabic). Beirut: IslamKotob. p. 163.
  3. [3]
    Clot 2009, p. 201.
  4. [4]
    Ibn Taghribirdi 1929, pp. 254–255.

Sources

  • Clot, André (2009). L'Égypte des Mamelouks 1250-1517. L'empire des esclaves (in French). Paris: Perrin. ISBN 978-2-262-03045-2.
  • Ibn Taghribirdi (1929). Al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah fī Mulūk Miṣr wa-al-Qāhirah (in Arabic). Vol. 15. Egyptian Dar al-Kutub Press in Cairo.
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