al-Malik al-Kamil Muhammad ibn al-Adil ibn Ayyub

Al-Malik al-Kamil Muhammad ibn al-Adil ibn Ayyub, an Ayyubid sultan. His father al-Malik al-Adil set him over Egypt after he took it in 595 AH, when al-Malik al-Aziz died ¹.

Al-Maqrizi says that he was to succeed his father over the lands of Egypt, and that when news of his father's death reached him at al-Adiliyya near Damietta, he became sole ruler of the kingdom of Egypt ².

He says that the Franks took the Chain Tower and cut its chains, and that al-Kamil set up a great bridge to stop them crossing the Nile. He had spent more than seventy thousand dinars on the tower and the bridge ².

He says that al-Kamil sent seventy messengers to the lands calling on Muslims to help them ³.

Al-Suyuti says that he was too weak to resist the Franks when they took Damietta in 616 AH, so he built a city at the junction of the two seas and named it al-Mansura, and camped there with his army ¹.