Al-Aziz Jamal al-Din Yusuf

Al-Aziz Jamal al-Din Yusuf
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Reign	7 June 1438 – 9 September 1438
Predecessor	Barsbay
Successor	Sayf al-Din Jaqmaq
Born	14 April 1424
Died	after 1438
Father	Barsbay
Mother	Khawand Jolban

Al-Aziz Jamal al-Din Yusuf (Arabic: العزيز جمال الدين أبو المحاسن يوسف بن برسباي) was the son of Barsbay, and a Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 7 June to 9 September 1438.[1][2]

Biography

Following Sultan Barsbay's death in 1438, his fifteen-year-old son Yusuf inherited the throne. However, Jaqmaq who was his guardian orchestrated a scheme to remove him from power and seized the sultanate for himself.[3] Yusuf who reigned for 94 days was imprisoned in Cairo then in Alexandria, where, according to Ibn Taghribirdi, he spent the rest of his life studying under quite pleasant circumstances.[4]

References

1. Margoliouth, David Samuel (1911). "Egypt/3 History" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 80–130, see page 102. ...on the 7th of June 1438. In accordance with the custom of his predecessors he left the throne to a son still in his minority, Abu'l-Mahāsin Yūsuf, who took the title Malik al-'Azīz, but as usual after a few months he was displaced by the regent Jakmak, who on the 9th of September 1438 was proclaimed sultan
2. Eduard von Zambaur (1980). معجم الأنساب والأسرات الحاكمة في التاريخ الإسلامي للمستشرق زامباور (in Arabic). Beirut: IslamKotob. p. 163.
3. Clot 2009, p. 201.
4. Ibn Taghribirdi 1929, pp. 254–255.

Sources

• Clot, André (2009). L'Égypte des Mamelouks 1250-1517. L'empire des esclaves (in French). Paris: Perrin. ISBN 978-2-262-03045-2.
• Ibn Taghribirdi (1929). Al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah fī Mulūk Miṣr wa-al-Qāhirah (in Arabic). Vol. 15. Egyptian Dar al-Kutub Press in Cairo.

Regnal titles
Preceded by Barsbay	Mamluk Sultan of Egypt 7 June 1438 – 9 September 1438	Succeeded by Sayf al-Din Jaqmaq