Al-Ashraf Qansuh Al-Ghuri
✓ Source-basedstableSultan of Egypt from 1501 to 1516
PoliticiansLived 1441 to 1516 · aged 75
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Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri or Qansuh II al-Ghawri was the penultimate Mamluk Sultan. One of the last and most powerful of the Burji dynasty, he reigned from 1501 to 1516.
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Venetian embassy to the Mamluk Governor in Damascus in 1511, during the reign of Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri. Workshop of Giovanni Bellini.
The Mamluks defended Jeddah against the Portuguese under Ottoman naval commander Selman Reis, in the Siege of Jeddah (1517)
Wikala of Al-Ghuri, one of al-Ghuri's many constructions in Cairo, completed in 1505
Ottoman painting showing the head of Mamluk Sultan al-Ghuri being remitted to Selim I
Severed head of Sultan al-Ghuri. Hünername (1584)Politicians born in the 1440s 6
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Lived 1441 to 1516 · aged 75
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