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السلطان سليم شاه بن عثمان

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Selim I, sultan of the Ottoman state, son of Bayezid II; he entered Egypt after Marj Dabiq and died in 926 AH after a reign of nine years and eight months.

Selim I, sultan of the Ottoman state, son of Bayezid II. Jaramard al-Nasiri, al-Suyuti's pupil, calls him 'the calamity of the ninth century' — for his wars with his brothers and their sons, then his fighting the lord of the east and entering Egypt after Marj Dabiq where its sultan Qansuh al-Ghawri fell; he says Egypt had not suffered the like since it became an abode of Islam. He died on the ninth of Shawwal 926 AH at fifty-four, after a reign of nine years and eight months.

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