| Al-Mansur Ali المنصور علي | |||||||||
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 Gold dinar of al-Mansur Nur ad-Din Ali | |||||||||
| Sultan of Egypt | |||||||||
| Reign | 1257–1259 | ||||||||
| Predecessor | Izz al-Din Aybak | ||||||||
| Successor | Saif ad-Din Qutuz | ||||||||
| Born | Ali c.1242 Cairo | ||||||||
| Died | after 1259 | ||||||||
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| Father | Aybak | ||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||
Al-Mansur Ali (Arabic: المنصور على, epithet: al-Malik al-Manṣūr Nūr ad-dīn ʾAlī ibn Aybak, Arabic: الملك المنصور نور الدين علي بن أيبك) (b. c. 1242) was the second of the Mamluk Sultans of Egypt in the Turkic, or Bahri, line. Some historians, however, consider Shajar al-Durr as the first of the Mamluk Sultans; thus, to them Al-Mansur Ali was the third Mamluk Sultan and not the second.[1] He ruled from 1257 to 1259 after the assassination of his father Aybak during a turbulent period that witnessed the Mongols invasion of the Islamic world.
- ^ (Shayal, p.115/vol.2.)