{{Short description|Egyptian mamluk and historian (died 1325)}} {{Infobox person | name = Baybars al-Mansuri | image = | alt = | caption = | native_name = بيبرس الدوادار | native_name_lang = ar | birth_date = 1245 | birth_place = | death_date = 4 September 1325 | death_place = [[Cairo]] | nationality = | occupation = [[Historian]], [[soldier]] | notable_works = ''Zubdat al-fuṣūl wa-l-ʿuqūd fī taʾrīkh al-duwal wa-l-ʿuhūd'', ''Al-Tuhfa al-mulkīya fī al-daula al-Turkīya'' | era = [[Bahri Mamluks]] | known_for = Chronicle of Mamluk history }}

'''Baybars al-Mansoori''' (''Rukn ad-Dīn Baybars ad-Dawadar al-Manṣūrī al-Khaṭaʾī.'' d. 1325) was a [[mamluk]] (slave soldier) in the service of [[sultan of Egypt|sultan]] [[Al-Mansur Qalawun]]. He bore the ''[[Nisba (onomastics)|nisba]]'' locative surname ''al-Khit'ai'' ("from [[Qara Khitai|Khitai]]"), suggesting an origin from the easternmost Muslim lands, possibly Mongol.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=Hugh N. |title=The Historiography of Islamic Egypt: (c. 950 - 1800) |date=1 January 2001 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-11794-5 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-iu6u8GkvkC&pg=PA37 |language=en}}</ref>

He is the author of a historiographical work, known as ''Zubdat al-fikra fi ta'rīkh al-hijra'' ("quintessence of thought in Muslim history"). He was purchased from the [[List of rulers of Mosul|prince of Mosul]] in c. 1260 and participated in several of Qalawun's campaigns during the reign of sultan [[Baibars]] (d. 1277). In 1284, he was given command of fifty horsemen. In 1287, he was appointed governor of [[Al Karak]], a post which he held until Qalawun's death in 1290.

He was ''[[amir al-hajj]]'' in 701 AH (1302).{{sfn|al-Jazarī|2002|p=386}}

His ''Zubda'' is a universal chronicle which ends just prior to his death. A second work, ''Al-Tuhfa al-mulukiyya fi l-dawla al turkiyya'', is based on the ''Zubda'' and covers only the [[Bahri dynasty|Bahri period]], 1250&ndash;1325. The ''Zubda'' is by far the more informative work, but the ''Tuhfa'' contains some original content as well. Both works rely heavily on [[Ibn Abd al-Zahir]]. Both works were written with the help of the Coptic scribe [[Ibn Kabar]].

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==References== *Margoliouth, D. S., "Baibars, al-Manṣūrī al-Khaṭaʾī." [[Encyclopaedia of Islam]] I (1913), 590 *[[Eliyahu Ashtor|Ashtor, E.]], "Baibars al-Mansuri", [[Encyclopedia of Islam]] I, 1127f. *Ashtor, E. [Strauss, E.] "Baibars al-Manṣūrī und Ibn al-Furāt als Geschichtsquellen für die erste Periode der Baḥrīmamluken." Ph.D. diss., University of Vienna, 1936. *Linda Northrup, ''From Slave to Sultan: The Career of Al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn and the Consolidation of Mamluk Rule in Egypt and Syria (678-689 A.H./1279-1290 A.D.)'', Freiburger Islamstudien 18, Franz Steiner (1998), [https://books.google.com/books?id=DivRsJGJaKwC&pg=PA38 p. 38]&ndash;40. *Richards, D. S., "A Mamluk Amir's Mamluk History: Baybars al-Manṣūrī and the Zubdat al-Fikra." i: ''The Historiography of Islamic Egypt (c. 950-1800)'' eds. Kennedy, Hugh, Brill, 2001, 37–44. *Richards, D. S., "Baybars al-Manṣūrī (d. 725/1325)." in: ''Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature'', eds. by Scott Meisami, Julie//Starkey, Paul Routledge (1998), p.&nbsp;144. *Saleh, Abdel Hamid. "Un mot sur Baybars al-Mansurī et son œuvre, la Tuḥfa." Annales islamologiques/Ḥawlīyāt Islāmīyah 20, (1984): 55–60. *{{cite book|author1-last=al-Jazarī|author1-first=‘Abd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī|editor1=Muḥammad Ḥasan Muḥammad Ḥasan Ismā‘īl |script-title=ar:الدرر الفرائد المنظمة في أخبار الحاج وطريق مكة المعظمة|title=al-Durar al-farā'id al-munaẓẓamah fī akhbār al-ḥājj wa-ṭarīq Makkat al-Mu'aẓẓamah|date=2002|orig-year=Composed before 1570|edition=1st|publisher=Dār al-Kutub al-‘Ilmīyah |language=ar |location=Bayrūt |volume=1 }}

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