Baydara

Badr al-Din Baydara al-Mansuri (Arabic: بدر الدين بيدارة المنصوري) was the na'ib al-saltana (viceroy) of the Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Khalil (r. 1290–1293)

Early life

Baydara was a toddler when he arrived in Cairo with his mother as captives from the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260.

Career

Baydara was appointed the governor of Upper Egypt, excluding the Fayyum oasis, in 1281 by the Mamluk Sultan Qalawun (r. 1271–1290).

References

Bibliography

• Mazor, Amir (2015). The Rise and Fall of a Muslim Regiment: The Manṣūriyya in the First Mamluk Sultanate, 678/1279–741/1341. Gottingen: Bonn University Press. ISBN 978-3-8471-0424-7.
• Sato, Tsugitaka (1997). State and Rural Society in Medieval Islam: Sultans, Muqtaʻs, and Fallahun. Leiden, New York and Koln: Brill. ISBN 90-04-10649-9.