1. Al-Nasir Muhammad however annulled taxes and surcharges that were imposed on commoners for the benefit of the emirs and officials.
23 Facts About Al-Nasir Muhammad
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Al-Nasir Muhammad employed Emir Ibn al-Waziri, a man who was known to be tough on corruption, as the head of the Court of Justice.
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An-Nasir Al-Nasir Muhammad was the third son of Sultan Qalawun and the brother of Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad was born in Cairo at Qal'at al-Jabal.
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An-Nasir Al-Nasir Muhammad married a Turkic woman Khawand Toghay, who started as his slave but was freed by him.
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Lajin convinced Kitbugha to depose an-Nasir Al-Nasir Muhammad and install himself as sultan after warning that the Ashrafiyah and an-Nasir would seek revenge for the murder of Khalil in which Kitbugha had been involved.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad informed them that he was going to Mecca for a pilgrimage but, instead, he went to al-Karak and stayed there ending his second reign.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad knew he would not be able to rule while Baibars and Salar were in power as sooner or later they would depose him or even kill him.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad's reign was marked by social unrest and threats from the Mongols and the Crusaders.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad even exiled the Caliph to Qus in 1338.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad abolished a few official positions, seized the wealth and property of corrupt officials, discharged the Oirat Mongols from royal service and annulled the exceptional taxes and surcharges which were imposed on the common people by the authorities and which enriched officials and made the emirs more powerful.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad employed Emir Ibn al-Waziri, a man who was known to be tough on corruption, as the head of Dar al-Adl and every Monday the Sultan would listen to complaints from the common people against the officials and the emirs.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad prohibited his governors from executing or physically punishing convicts without his permission and he shut an infamous prison near the Citadel.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad treated the emperor's envoys with contempt and dismissed them.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad redug the canal connecting Alexandria with the Nile: it was opened to traffic in 1311 and required workforces on a Pharaonic scale.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad carried out significant constructions and expansions in the Citadel, including the Qasr al-Ablaq, the Great Iwan, a new Friday mosque, and the Citadel's aqueduct system.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad added to his father's complex of structures Cairo's first sabil, a fountain for the use of all, especially welcome to the poor who might not have access to a well.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad had numerous emblems, apart from them were an eagle, flower, lily, Bundel.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad went with the senior men of the sultanate to pray the Eid prayer with his people, and he asked the preacher for permission to hasten the sermon because he felt very unwell.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad felt that his end was near, so on the second day of the Eid, he asked for his son, Prince al-Mansur Abu Bakr.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad issued a decree appointing him as Crown Prince of the sultanate, and he gathered the princes of Egypt and the leaders of the Egyptian army and made them swear allegiance and fidelity to his son.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad told the statesmen that if they saw one of his sons or grandchildren from the Qalawunid family of bad conduct or a ruler who was not worthy of Egypt and the Egyptians, they should remove him and appoint a better one.
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Al-Nasir Muhammad told those in the room that the Sultan of Egypt, al-Nasir Mahammad bin Qalawun, had died at the age of 58 years.