Qawsun
Sayf ad-Din Qawsun | |
|---|---|
سيف الدين قوصون | |
Enamelled glass mosque lamp of Amir Qawsun, probably intended for one of his two architectural commissions in Cairo —the mosque or a tomb-hospice complex. Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| Emir of Mamluk Sultanate | |
| In office 1330s – 7 June 1341 | |
| Monarch | an-Nasir Muhammad |
| In office 7 June 1341 – 5 August 1341 | |
| Monarch | al-Mansur Abu Bakr |
| Regent of Mamluk Saltanat | |
| In office 5 August 1341 – 21 January 1342 | |
| Monarch | al-Ashraf Kujuk |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1302 |
| Died | April 1342 (aged 39–40) Alexandria, Mamluk Egypt |
| Nationality | Mongol, then Mamluk |
Sayf ad-Din Qawsun ibn Abdullah an-Nasiri as-Saqi (1302 – April 1342), commonly known as Qawsun (also spelled Qausun or Qusun) was a prominent Mamluk emir during the reigns of sultans an-Nasir Muhammad (r. 1310–41), al-Mansur Abu Bakr (r. 1341) and al-Ashraf Kujuk (r. 1341–42).