Badr al-Din Baydara al-Mansuri () was the ''na'ib al-saltana'' (viceroy) of the

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 ...

sultan al-Ashraf Khalil ()

Early life

Baydara was a toddler when he arrived in

Cairo Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...

with his mother as captives from the

Battle of Ain Jalut The Battle of Ain Jalut (), also spelled Ayn Jalut, was fought between the Bahri Mamluks of Egypt and the Ilkhanate on 3 September 1260 (25 Ramadan 658 AH) near the spring of Ain Jalut in southeastern Galilee in the Jezreel Valley. It marks ...

in 1260.

Career

Baydara was appointed the governor of

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, excluding the Fayyum oasis, in 1281 by the

Sultan Qalawun ().

References

Bibliography

* *{{cite book , last1=Sato , first1=Tsugitaka , title=State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam: Sultans, Muqtaʻs, and Fallahun , date=1997 , publisher=Brill , location=Leiden, New York and Koln , isbn=90-04-10649-9 , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MycQL-9_bqwC 14th-century regents Mamluk emirs Bahri dynasty