الملك المنصور لاجين

الملك المنصور لاجين

Usurper-sultan of 696–698, robed and deeded by the caliph, killed in Jumada II — al-Nasir restored 1.

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A Mamluk sultan. He seized power in Damascus in 696 AH while the sultan was there, and the amirs swore allegiance to him, and no two of them disagreed about him. 2

The caliph invested him with the black robe and wrote him a decree of appointment. He was then killed in Jumada al-Akhira 698 AH, and al-Malik al-Nasir was restored. 2

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 731
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p.731
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