Ruler
Tumanbay II
Last Mamluk sultan
1516 – 1517
His brief reign.
Biography
The last Mamluk sultan, who took power after Sultan al-Ghawri was killed at Marj Dabiq. He resisted the Ottomans after al-Raydaniyya, then was captured and hanged at Bab Zuwayla in April 1517.
Key facts
Certainty: Established
Tumanbay was hanged at Bab Zuwayla in Cairo in 1517.
- M. W. Daly (ed.) (1998) “The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume 2: Modern Egypt, from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century” Cambridge University Press
- Carl F. Petry (ed.) (1998) “The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume 1: Islamic Egypt, 640–1517” Cambridge University Press