Al-Mansur Ali | |||||||||
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Sultan of Egypt | |||||||||
Reign | 1257–1259 | ||||||||
Predecessor | Izz al-Din Aybak | ||||||||
Successor | Saif ad-Din Qutuz | ||||||||
Born | Ali c.1242 Cairo |
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Father | Aybak | ||||||||
Religion | Sunni Islam |
Full name | |
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Al-Malik Al-Manṣūr Nūr ad-dīn ʾAlī ibn Aybak الملك المنصور نور الدين علي بن أيبك |
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Era name and dates | |
Bahri Mamluks: 1250, 1254–1382, 1389 |
Al-Mansur Ali (Arabic: المنصور على ) (epithet: Al-Malik Al-Manṣūr Nūr ad-dīn ʾAlī ibn Aybak, Arabic: الملك المنصور نور الدين على بن أيبك ) (b. c. 1244, Cairo) 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. 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.