Al-Ashraf Janbalat

Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Al-Ashraf Janbalat
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Reign30 June 1500 – 25 January 1501
PredecessorAbu Sa'id Qansuh
SuccessorSayf ad-Din Tumanbay
Born1455
Died1501 (aged 45–46)
SpouseKhawand Aslbay[1]

Al-Ashraf Abu al-Nasir Janbalat (Arabic: الأشرف أبو النصر جانبلاط; 1455 – 1501) was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 30 June 1500 to 25 January 1501.[2][3]

Biography

Abu al-Nasir Janbalat who was about 45 years old raised to the throne after Sultan Qansuh, threatened by a plot, fled in 1500. The chancellor Tuman-bay, who had ruled Syria, overthrew him in 1501. Janbalat tried to resist in the citadel, but was defeated, captured and sent into exile in Alexandria, to be later executed in 1501.[4]

References

  1. ^ D'hulster, Kristof; Steenbergen, Jo Van. "Family Matters: The Family-In-Law Impulse in Mamluk Marriage Policy". Annales Islamologiques. 47: 61–82. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  2. ^ Poole, Edward Stanley; Lane-Poole, Stanley; Margoliouth, David Samuel (1911). "Egypt s.v. III. History (as Jān Belāt)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). p. 103.
  3. ^ Eduard von Zambaur (1980). معجم الأنساب والأسرات الحاكمة في التاريخ الإسلامي للمستشرق زامباور (in Arabic). Beirut: IslamKotob. p. 164.
  4. ^ Nicole 2014, p. 13.

Sources

  • Nicole, David (2014). Mamluk 'Askari 1250–1517. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 1782009302.
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Preceded by Mamluk Sultan of Egypt
30 June 1500–25 January 1501
Succeeded by
Sayf ad-Din Tumanbay
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