Shihab ad-Din Ahmad
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Shihab ad-Din Ahmad (Arabic: شهاب الدين أحمد) royal name: al-Malik al-Nasir Shihab ad-Din Ahmad (Arabic: الملك الناصر شهاب الدين أحمد)) (b. Cairo - d. 1344, Karak) was a Mamluk
Sultan
of Egypt
in 1342.
Mamluk
A Mamluk was a soldier of slave origin, who were predominantly Cumans/Kipchaks The "mamluk phenomenon", as David Ayalon dubbed the creation of the specific warrior...
Sultan
Sultan
Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...
of Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
in 1342.