Sultan al-Ashraf Inal

السلطان الأشرف إينال

c. 16 March 1461 CE · c. 15 Jumada I 865 AH

Circassian sultan invested by caliph al-Qa'im in 857; their breach over the soldiers' intrusion led him to depose the caliph himself in 859 and hold him at Alexandria 1.

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Roles
sultan
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Egypt & Nile
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Abu Zayyan Muhammad V, Marinid Sultan

Overview

Sultan al-Ashraf Inal, a Circassian Mamluk sultan. Al-Suyuti says that he attacked al-Mansur Uthman ibn Jaqmaq and arrested him. The caliph al-Qa'im invested him in the first month of Rabi al-Awwal 857 AH, and he took the title al-Ashraf. Then a dispute arose between the caliph and al-Ashraf over the soldiers riding against him, and al-Ashraf deposed him from the caliphate in Jumada 859 AH and sent him to Alexandria, where he kept him in custody. 2

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Participated in
Inal's abdication and Khushqadam's accession
Parent of
al-Malik al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad ibn Inal

People and things also explored

Inal's abdication and Khushqadam's accession· al-Malik al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad ibn Inal· السلطان الظاهر خشقدم· Cairo

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 775
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p.775
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Inal's abdication and Khushqadam's accession

In 865 the sultan al-Ashraf Inal abdicated to his son al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad on Wednesday 14 Jumada I and died a day later; the atabeg Khushqadam deposed the son after five months and five days and took the sultanate as al-Zahir Khushqadam on Sunday 11 Ramadan 865.