Al-Mansur Fakhr al-Din Uthman

This article is about the Mamluk sultan. For the Druze emir in Mount Lebanon, see Fakhr al-Din I.

Al-Malik al-Mansur Fakhr al-Din Uthman ibn Jaqmaq, more simply known as Al-Mansur Uthman (Arabic: المنصور فخر الدين عثمان بن جقمق) was Sultan of Cairo's Mamluk Burji dynasty (1453).

Al-Mansur Fakhr al-Din Uthman
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Reign	1 February − 15 March 1453
Predecessor	Sayf al-Din Jaqmaq
Successor	Sayf al-Din Inal
Born	c. 1435
Died	1484 Damietta
Father	Sayf al-Din Jaqmaq
Mother	Khawand Zahra

Biography

At 80 years old, the death of Sultan Jaqmaq allowed his son, Uthman (fathered from a Greek slave) to take the title of Al-Malik al-Mansur Fakhr al-Din Uthman. His father named him Uthman after the House of Osman to celebrate the Ottoman victory against the European Christians at the Battle of Varna. At the beginning of his reign, he was whipped by his principal minister. After disputes with Amir on the amount of donations to various groups of Mamelukes that had become a burden, street battles ensued between the groups of Mamelukes. Inal al-Ajrud group and the Mamluks house Barquq occupied Kalat al-Djabal (Fortress of the Mount). He was nominated as Sultan by the Abbasid Caliph of Cairo and four kadis with the title of Al-Malik al-Mansur Fakhr al-Din. Uthman had no support and because of his behavior was deposed on 15 March 1453.^[1]

He was then imprisoned in Alexandria until the reign of Sayf al-Din Khushqadam. He later returned to Cairo during the rule of Qaitbay who was a Mamluk to his father, Jaqmaq. In 1469, he went to Mecca to do Islamic pilgrimage. Then he lived in Damietta and studied Fiqh. He died in 1484 in Damietta and was later buried along with his father in Cairo.

Family

His only daughter was married to Azdumur al-Ibrahimi al-Zahiri Jaqmaq known as al-Tawil in 1474.^[2]

See also

• History of Islam

References

1. Clot 2009, p. 207.
2. O'Kane, B.; American University in Cairo (2009). Creswell Photographs Re-examined: New Perspectives on Islamic Architecture. American University In Cairo Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-977-416-244-2.

Sources

• Clot, André (2009). L'Égypte des Mamelouks 1250-1517. L'empire des esclaves (in French). Paris: Perrin. ISBN 978-2-262-03045-2.
• Encyclopaedia of Islam, Brill Publishers, Leiden, sv "Mamluks".