Aybak, al-Muʿizz ʿIzz al-Dīn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Levanoni, Amalia
Leiden
Brill
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Al-Malik al-Muʿizz ʿIzz al-Dīn Aybak al-Turkmānī al-Ṣāliḥī (r. 648-55/1250-7), the second Mamlūk sultan in Egypt, was one of the many Turkish mamlūk s bought, trained, and manumitted by the Ayyūbid ruler of Egypt al-Ṣāliḥ Najm al-Dīn Ayyūb (r. 637-47/1240-9). Aybak was one of his master's long-serving and trusted mamlūk s, remaining faithful to him during the latter's imprisonment in Karak, and returning with him to Egypt in 637/1239 when he ascended to the