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Sultan Jaqmaq

Type Figure Region Mamluk Egypt Time 1375–1453 Also known as Sayf al-Din Jaqmaq、al-Zahir Jaqmaq、Çakmak、سيف الدين جقمق

Sultan Jaqmaq (1375–1453), a Circassian Mamluk, ruled Egypt and Syria from 1438 to 1453 as the fourteenth sultan of the Burji dynasty.…

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  1. 1418–1438Damascus · Mamluk SultanateHe served as governor of Damascus from 1418 to 1420, building structures such as Khan Jaqmaq. Later appointed governor of the Cairo citadel, he rose to atabeg under Barsbay, led troops to suppress a rebellion by the bey of Dulkadir, and was entrusted with the guardianship of the crown prince Yusuf.
  2. 1438–1445Cairo · Mamluk SultanateAfter Barsbay's death in 1438, Jaqmaq, then about sixty-five, deposed the fifteen-year-old Yusuf and seized the throne. He suppressed court factions and executed his political rival Qurqumas; in 1441 he oversaw a major restoration of al-Azhar Mosque, consolidating his religious prestige and order in Cairo.
  3. 1441–1453Cairo · Mamluk SultanateIn the 1440s he waged war or applied diplomatic pressure on Anatolian beyliks such as Karaman and Dulkadir to check Ottoman expansion. Around 1450, senior officials such as Inal al-Ayubi helped quell a mutiny of the julban troops. In early 1453 he passed the throne to his son Fakhr al-Din Uthman and died, and the Mamluk regime entered a new succession crisis.

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