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Tūrān-Shāh

sultan of Egypt

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murder by Baybars

In Baybars I
…year murdered the new sultan, Tūrān Shāh. The death of the last Ayyūbid sultan was followed by a period of confusion that continued throughout the first years of the Mamlūk sultanate.
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opposition to Crusades

In Crusades: The Crusades of St. Louis
Meanwhile, Tūrān-Shāh, the sultan’s son, had returned from Diyarbakır (now in Turkey) to Cairo and temporarily dominated dissident factions there. Frankish supply ships from Damietta were intercepted, and before long the Crusaders were suffering from famine and disease. Louis, reluctant to abandon a work to which…
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