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    Al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Dīn Barsbāy (Arabic: الأشرف سيف الدين برسباي) was the ninth Burji Mamluk sultan of Egypt from AD 1422 to 1438. He was Circassian by...
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    The Barsbay Tower (Arabic: برج برسباي, romanized: Burj Barsbay), also known as Lions Tower (Arabic: برج السباع, romanized: Burj es-Sibaa), is a small Mamluk...
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    the state entered into a long period of financial distress. Under Sultan Barsbay major efforts were taken to replenish the treasury, particularly monopolization...
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    and Mausoleum of Sultan Barsbay or Complex of Sultan Barsbay is an Islamic funerary complex built by Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay in 1432 CE in the historic...
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    The Al-Ashraf Mosque or the Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay (Arabic: مسجد ومدرسة الأشرف برسباي) is a historical complex of mosque and madrasa...
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  • the state entered into a long period of financial distress. Under Sultan Barsbay major efforts were taken to replenish the treasury, particularly monopolization...
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    taken by another Mamluk, Al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh. Under the reign of Sultan Barsbay, the Mamluk Sultanate grew to its widest territorial extent. In 1426, he...
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    records the achievements of one of the most notable circassians, Sultan Barsbay. The document, dated to 1423 (CE), attests to a wide reconstruction and...
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    E.). He was Circassian by birth, and was purchased by the ninth sultan Barsbay (1422 to 1438 C.E.) before being freed by the eleventh Sultan Jaqmaq (1438...
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    envoys from Ottoman Empire, Hafsid dynasty and Sharif of Mecca praised Barsbay for his victory, Janus was then brought to the sultan, humiliated, he was...
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    Cypriotes to acknowledge the suzerainty of the Egyptian sultan Barsbay. During Barsbay's reign, Egypt's population became greatly reduced from what it...
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    kept good relations with Barsbay, the Mamluk sultan. According to Al-Sakhawi's Al-Daw al-lami` li ahli al-Qarni al-Tasi, Barsbay once gifted the Bengali...
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    authority of Damascus province. In the mid-15th century, under Sultan Barsbay, a road was built that connected Masyaf with Tripoli, but the postal route...
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    invasion of Cyprus could be launched and not until the era of al-Ashraf Barsbay did the Mamluks launch a campaign against Cyprus. In 1293, Mongol ruler...
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    reconstructed the mosque in 1333, the ceiling was redone under al-Ashraf Barsbay in 1436, and Qaytbay made renovations in 1476. During the Ottoman era,...
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    coin was first minted in 1407 and was named after al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Dīn Barsbāy (d. 1438), one of the Mamluk rulers of Egypt. It originally weighed 3.45...
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  • Turkic Meaning "gray or yellow/brown leopard" or "leopard of the moon" Region of origin Turkish Other names Related names Oebarsius, Baybars, Barsbay...
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    view talk edit Legend 1 Citadel of Tripoli 2 Tripoli Clock Tower 3 Barsbay Tower 4 Port of Tripoli 5 Old Railway Station 6 Beirut Arab University (BAU)...
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  • 28, 1421, who died two days later. Conflicts among emirs ensued, with Barsbay eventually seizing power. Deposed on April 1, 1422, Al-Nasir al-Din Muhammad...
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  • Baybars II Khanqah of Faraj ibn Barquq Khanqah-Mausoleum of Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay Lulua Mosque Madrasa of Umm al-Sultan Sha'ban Madrasa of Amir Sunqur Sa'di...
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    Power-Broker. Cambridge University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-107-10829-5. Barsbay. Encyclopedia Aethiopica. Erlikh, Hagai (2000). The Nile Histories, Cultures...
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    father and was known for justice and charity. His father had good ties with Barsbay, a Mamluk sultan who had gifted Jalaluddin with investiture, a robe of...
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    Minbar of al-Ghamri (circa 1451), currently housed in the Khanqah of Sultan Barsbay. This minbar takes the design of decorative geometric patterns slightly...
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  • بن برسباي) was the son of Barsbay, and a Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 7 June to 9 September 1438. Following Sultan Barsbay's death in 1438, his fifteen-year-old...
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    not far from the current site of the 15th-century Madrasa of al-Ashraf Barsbay. This introduced foreign trade into the heart of the city for the first...
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  • Ali as the governor of Marash. Through the orders of the Mamluk Sultan Barsbay (r. 1422–38), Mehmed regained Aintab and Darende, which Ali had been reassigned...
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    Cypriot nobles and officials of the kingdom participated in the raids. Barsbay, the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, sent military forces to Cyprus several times...
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    testified to by reports that after the destruction of Aydhab by Sultan Barsbay in 1426, the refugees, who fled to Suakin instead of Dongola, were all...
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    Mosque of al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh Minaret of the Madrasa-Mosque of al-Ashraf Barsbay (1425) Minaret of the Funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay (1474) Minaret...
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  • Qaitbay, (c. 1417–1496), Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt Al-Ashraf Sayf-ad-Din Barsbay, (c. 1369–1438), Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt Sayf ad-Din Bilbay, (died...
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