an intercession from the Caliph, whereupon he was released. In 653 AH he set out for Baghdad to reclaim his deposit, but he was not allowed to enter the city. He therefore encamped at al-Mashhad (1), performed the ḥajj, and sought the Prophet’s ﷺ intercession, reciting a qaṣīda in his presence (2). Later he fell ill in Damascus and died; he was buried at al-Muʿaẓẓamiyya beside his father.

Al-Dimyāṭī transmits a ḥadith from him in his Muʿjam, introducing it with the words: “The erudite and virtuous king, al-Malik al-Nāṣir, related to us….”

I say: He died of the plague on the twenty-eighth of Jumādā al-Ūlā, 656 AH. The Sultan accompanied his bier from al-Buwayḍāʾ, grieved for him, and said, “He was our elder and our shaykh.” His mother, a Khwārazmian woman, survived him.

271 – al-Manṣūr Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī, son of al-Muʿizz Aybak the Turkic Turcoman*
The Sultan, al-Malik al-Manṣūr Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī, son of the Sultan al-Malik al-Muʿizz Aybak al-Turkī, the Turcoman, al-Ṣāliḥī.

When his father was killed in Rabīʿ al-Awwal 655 AH, this youth was proclaimed sultan, and his father’s mamlūk Quṭuz—the one who routed the Mongols at the battle of ʿAyn Jālūt—served as his regent. Coins were struck and the Friday sermon delivered in the name of al-Manṣūr, who was then fifteen years old. His court was managed by the Muʿizzi emirs, his father’s gilmān. His reign lasted two and a half years, and the enemy bore down along with