Mamluk Sultan An-Nasir returns from Kerak

1302

The young Qalawunid sultan was restored to his Cairo throne after years of regency and exile in Kerak, the remote Jordanian fortress where he had been confined by rival emirs. An-Nasir Muhammad would rule for three decades, overseeing the last great flowering of Bahri Mamluk architecture in Cairo and preserving Egypt's dominance of the Indian Ocean spice trade.