- Al-Ashraf
Qansuh al-Ghuri (Arabic: الأشرف قانصوه الغوري) or
Qansuh II al-Ghawri (c. 1441/1446 – 24
August 1516) was the second-to-last of the
Mamluk Sultans...
- Abu Sa'id
Qansuh, also
Qansuh Al-Ashrafi,
Qansuh I or Al-Zahir
Qansuh, was the
twenty third Mamluk Sultan of
Egypt from the
Burji dynasty. He
ruled the...
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final period of
Mamluk rule in Egypt,
after the
defeat of
Sultan Al-Ashraf
Qansuh al-Ghawri by
Ottoman Sultan Selim I at the
Battle of Marj
Dabiq the year...
- his
slave concubine rather than his wife, and
sister of
Sultan Abu Sa'id
Qansuh. She was the
mother of his son,
Sultan Sultan An-Nasir Muhammad.
After Qaitbay's...
- of
Syria and
opened the door to the
conquest of Egypt.
Sultan Al-Ashraf
Qansuh al-Ghawri
spent the
winter of 1515 and the
spring of 1516
preparing an army...
-
hanging for
alleged conspiracy. He was
overthrown and
succeeded by Al-Ashraf
Qansuh al-Ghawri. He was
married to the
Mamluk noblewoman Fāṭima bint ʿAlī ibn...
-
Portuguese in the
Indian harbour of Panane. In 1504, the
Mamluk Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri
first sent an
envoy to the Pope, in the
person of the
Grand Prior...
- Qait Bay
first reign 1497
Qansuh Khumsama'ah [arz] 1497 al-Nasir Abu al-Sa'adat
Muhammad bin Qait Bay
second reign 1498
Qansuh Al-Ashrafi 1500 Al-Bilal...
-
through the
political ladder during the era of the
Egyptian Sultan al-Ashraf
Qansuh al-Ghuri,
until he was
appointed to the
highest positions in the Egyptian...
-
political instability and
succession disputes, the last
major Mamluk sultan was
Qansuh al-Ghuri, who came to
power in 1501.
While he
attempted some reforms, including...
