Baybars al-Mansoori (''Rukn ad-Dīn Baybars ad-Dawadar al-Manṣūrī al-Khaṭaʾī.'' d. 1325) was a

mamluk Mamluk or Mamaluk (; (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural); translated as "one who is owned", meaning "slave") were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-so ...

(slave soldier) in the service of

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Al-Mansur Qalawun. He bore the '' nisba'' locative surname ''al-Khit'ai'' ("from Khitai"), suggesting an origin from the easternmost Muslim lands, possibly Mongol. He is the author of a historiographical work, known as ''Zubdat al-fikra fi ta'rīkh al-hijra'' ("quintessence of thought in Muslim history"). He was purchased from the prince of Mosul in c. 1260 and participated in several of Qalawun's campaigns during the reign of sultan

Baibars Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari (; 1223/1228 – 1 July 1277), commonly known as Baibars or Baybars () and nicknamed Abu al-Futuh (, ), was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, of Turkic Kipchak origin, in the Ba ...

(d. 1277). In 1284, he was given command of fifty horsemen. In 1287, he was appointed governor of

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, a post which he held until Qalawun's death in 1290. He was ''

amir al-hajj ''Amir al-hajj'' ( or ; plural: ) was the position and title given to the commander of the annual Hajj pilgrim caravan by successive Muslim empires, from the 7th century until the 20th century. Since the Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid period, there w ...

'' in 701 AH (1302). His ''Zubda'' is a universal chronicle which ends just prior to his death. A second work, ''Al-Tuhfa al-mulukiyya fi l-dawla al turkiyya'', is based on the ''Zubda'' and covers only the Bahri period, 1250–1325. The ''Zubda'' is by far the more informative work, but the ''Tuhfa'' contains some original content as well. Both works rely heavily on Ibn Abd al-Zahir. Both works were written with the help of the Coptic scribe Ibn Kabar.

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References

*Margoliouth, D. S., "Baibars, al-Manṣūrī al-Khaṭaʾī."

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I (1913), 590 * Ashtor, E., "Baibars al-Mansuri",

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I, 1127f. *Ashtor, E. trauss, E."Baibars al-Manṣūrī und Ibn al-Furāt als Geschichtsquellen für die erste Periode der Baḥrīmamluken." Ph.D. diss., University of Vienna, 1936. *Linda Northrup, ''From Slave to Sultan: The Career of Al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn and the Consolidation of Mamluk Rule in Egypt and Syria (678-689 A.H./1279-1290 A.D.)'', Freiburger Islamstudien 18, Franz Steiner (1998)
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ndash;40. *Richards, D. S., "A Mamluk Amir's Mamluk History: Baybars al-Manṣūrī and the Zubdat al-Fikra." i: ''The Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800)'' eds. Kennedy, Hugh, Brill, 2001, 37–44. *Richards, D. S., "Baybars al-Manṣūrī (d. 725/1325)." in: ''Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature'', eds. by Scott Meisami, Julie//Starkey, Paul Routledge (1998), p. 144. *Saleh, Abdel Hamid. "Un mot sur Baybars al-Mansurī et son œuvre, la Tuḥfa." Annales islamologiques/Ḥawlīyāt Islāmīyah 20, (1984): 55–60. * {{authority control Mamluks 1325 deaths 13th-century Egyptian people 14th-century Egyptian people Egyptian historians of Islam 14th-century slaves Egyptian slaves