At a glance
- Roles
- sultan
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
Sunni (documented)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Al-Malik al-Zahir Abu Sa'id Timurbugha al-Rumi al-Zahiri al-Jaqmaqi took the sultanate after Yalbay was deposed — the fifteenth of the Circassian kings of Egypt. He had merit and piety, sought the people's affection, and was skilled in certain crafts: he made superior bows with his own hands, fashioned arrows superbly and shot them excellently, with complete horsemanship. Yet his time never cleared for him a single day — it shot him off his bow's saddle to the farthest mark: matters stayed on him until they deposed him and exiled him to Alexandria; his sultanate had lasted two months less one day. He died at Alexandria in Dhu'l-Hijja 879, past sixty. 1
Connections
People and things also explored
السلطان الظاهر خشقدم· السلطان الأشرف قايتباي· al-Zahir Yalbay· Cairo· Khushqadam's death and the succession through Yalbay and Timurbugha to Qaytbay
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 315, 326
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Zahir Timurbugha”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/timurbugha/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.