Al-Mansur Ali
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Al-Mansur Ali was the second of the Mamluk Sultans of Egypt in the Turkic, or Bahri, line. Some historians, however, consider Shajar al-Durr as the first of the Mamluk Sultans; thus, to them Al-Mansur
Gold dinar of al-Mansur Nur ad-Din Ali
Aybak
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Izz al-Din Aybak was the first of the Mamluk sultans of Egypt in the Turkic Bahri line. He ruled from 1250 until his death in 1257.
Al-Mansur Ali
…Sultans; thus, to them Al-Mansur Ali was the third Mamluk Sultan and not the second. He ruled from 1257 to 1259 after the assassination of his father Aybak during a turbulent period that witnessed the Mongols invasion of the Islamic world. Shayal, Jamal, Prof. of Islamic history, Tarikh Misr al-Islamiyah…
Silver dirham of Aybak minted in Cairo in 1256