Al-Mansur Nasir al-Din Muhammad

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Who is Al-Mansur Nasir al-Din Muhammad?

Al-Mansur Nasir al-Din Muhammad was Kurdish and the third Sultan of Egypt of the Ayyubid Dynasty.

The grandson of the dynasty's founder, Saladin, al-Mansur succeeded his father al-Aziz Uthman on the latter's death in 1198, at the age of twelve. A struggle then broke out between different military factions as to who should serve as his atabeg or commander in chief, and effective regent. One faction, the Salahiyya or mamluks of Saladin, wanted Saladin's brother Al-Adil to take on this role, as he was a very able and experienced man. The other faction, the Asadiyya mamluks of Saladin's uncle Asad ad-Din Shirkuh favoured Saladin's oldest son, Al-Afdal.

In the struggle which followed Al-Afdal had the initial advantage of being based in Egypt, while Al-Adil was in Syria. Al-Afdal was duly proclaimed atabeg. War broke out between them and Al-Afdal attacked Damascus, but he soon lost the advantage and in February 1200 Al Adil entered Cairo. Within days he had removed the name of Al-Mansur from Friday prayers and replaced it with his own, thereby deposing him.

After his deposition Al Mansur Muhammad was exiled to Aleppo in Syria. There he lived in the court of his uncle, emir az-Zahir Ghazi, who in 1216 placed him in the line of succession for the emirate should his own sons predecease him. Nothing further is known of al-Mansur.

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