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Al-Mansur Ali

Type Figure Region Egypt Time c. 1266–1288 Also known as Nur al-Din Ali

Son of Baybars, installed as Bahri Mamluk sultan in 1277 at about eleven and a puppet of emirs such as Qalawun until 1279.

Timeline

1266–1277Cairo · EgyptHe grew up at court as the young son of Sultan Baybars and faced the succession arrangements after his father's death before coming of age.
1277–1279Cairo · EgyptInstalled as sultan in 1277, he left military and political power in the hands of senior emirs such as Qalawun and served merely as a court figurehead; in the last years of his rule power concentrated further in Qalawun's hands.

Sources

al-Manṣūr ʿAlī https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/al-mansur-ali-SIM_4833
The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume 1: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517 — Carl F. Petry (1998)