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Mamluk Sultan an-Nasir Muhammad (1340s, Egypt)

Type Event Region North Africa Time 1341–1350

After his third accession, an-Nasir Muhammad ruled Mamluk Egypt until his death in June 1341, one of the longest-reigning sultans in Mamluk history.

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  1. 1341Cairo · EgyptIn early 1341, an-Nasir Muhammad still controlled the Cairo court and the Nile Delta tax system, continuing to fund the caliph and foreign envoys. After his death in June 1341, his son al-Mansur Abu Bakr briefly acceded, and the Mamluk elite immediately entered a new round of power struggles.
  2. 1341–1345Cairo Citadel · EgyptIn the four years after an-Nasir's death, sultans such as Abu Bakr, al-Ashraf Kujuk, and an-Nasir Ahmad succeeded one another in rapid succession; rival Mamluk factions deposed and enthroned rulers to contest Nile trade revenues and command of the Syrian frontier, but largely retained the administrative and military framework established in an-Nasir's era.
  3. 1346–1350Cairo · EgyptAfter an-Nasir's grandson Sha'ban II acceded in 1346, the Mamluk Sultanate regained relative stability. In the late 1340s, Cairo still relied on the mosques, madrasas, and irrigation works expanded during an-Nasir's era to maintain regional hegemony, and continued anti-Ilkhanate diplomacy with the Golden Horde until the Black Death arrived in 1348, causing demographic and fiscal shocks.

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