Baybars II, al-Malik al-Muẓaffar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Sulṭān Rukn al-Dīn Baybars II b. ʿAbdallāh al-Manṣūrī al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Jāshnikīr was a Burjī mamlūk , who ruled from 708/1309 to 709/1310. He was the eleventh in the line of the Turkish Mamlūk rulers and possibly the first of Circassian origin. Bought as a child by Sulṭān Qalāwūn (r. 678-89/1279-90), he entered his service as one of the Burjī mamlūk s, was appointed jāshnikīr (taster), and was promoted to amīr ṭablakhānā (an amīr having the right to be accompanied by a band,