Barsbay

Al-Ashraf Sayf-ad-Din Barsbay was the ninth Burji Mamluk sultan of Egypt from A.D. 1422 to 1438. He was Circassian by birth and a former slave of the first Burji Sultan, Barquq. He was responsible for a number of administrative reforms in the Mamluk state, including the consolidation of the sultanate as a military magistrature and securing for Egypt exclusive rights over the Red Sea trade between Yemen and Europe. [Garcin, 293-94.] His mausoleum, which included a madrasa and khanqah, was built in Cairo's Northern Cemetry, and has survived to this day. [Behrens-Abouseif, 140-42.]

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*D. Behrens-Abouseif, "Islamic architecture in Cairo: an introduction" (Leiden, 1989).
*J.-C. Garcin, "The regime of the Circassian Mamluks," in C. Petry, ed., "The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume I: Islamic Egypt, 640-1517" (Cambridge, 1998), 290-317.