{{Short description|Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1341–1342)}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Küçük ''(Kujuk/Küchük)'' | title = Al-Malik al-Ashraf | image = | caption = | succession = Sultan of Egypt and Syria | predecessor = Al-Mansur Abu Bakr | successor = An-Nasir Ahmad | regent = Qawsun | reign = 5 August 1341 – 21 January 1342 | coronation = | full name = Al-Malik al-Ashraf Ala'a ad-Din Kujuk ibn Muhammad ibn Qalawun | spouse = | issue = None | dynasty = Bahri | house = Qalawuni | house-type = | father = An-Nasir Muhammad | mother = Ardu | birth_date = 1334 | birth_place = Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate | death_date = September 1345 (aged 11) | death_place = Mamluk Sultanate | religion = Islam }} '''Al-Ashraf Ala'a ad-Din Kujuk ibn Muhammad ibn Qalawun''' ({{langx|ar|الأشرف علاءالدين كجك}}), better known as '''al-Ashraf Kujuk''' (also spelled ''Küçük/Küchük''), (1334 – September 1345) was the Mamluk sultan from August 1341 to January 1342. He was a young child on the throne, and real power was held by his regent Emir Qawsun, a senior aid to Kujuk's father Sultan an-Nasir Muhammad (r. 1310–41). When Qawsun was ousted in a ''mamluk'' revolt in late December 1341, Kujuk was deposed in the weeks after. Kujuk was later murdered at the age of eleven as a result of the political intrigues in the sultanate.
==Biography== Kujuk was born in 1334 to father Sultan an-Nasir Muhammad (r. 1310–41) and his Tatar wife Ardu.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bauden|first1=Frédéric|title=The Sons of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad and the Politics of Puppets: Where Did It All Start?|journal=Mamluk Studies Review|date=2009|volume=13|issue=1|page=63|publisher=Middle East Documentation Center, The University of Chicago|url=http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/MSR_XIII-1_2009-Bauden_pp53-81.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Bauden">{{cite web|last1=Bauden|first1=Frédéric|title=The Qalawunids: A Pedigree|url=http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/qalawunids/qalawunid-pedigree.pdf|publisher=University of Chicago|accessdate=2016-02-25}}</ref> In August 1341, Kujuk, then five or six, was installed as sultan by the strongman of Egypt, Emir Qawsun, who served as his regent and in effect, held the reins of power.<ref name="Drory20">Drory 2006, p. 20.</ref> Kujuk was appointed following Qawsun's arrest and execution of Sultan al-Mansur Abu Bakr, Kujuk's elder half-brother and predecessor.<ref name="Drory20"/> Kujuk was removed from the throne on 21 January 1342 and replaced by his elder half-brother an-Nasir Ahmad after Qawsun was ousted and killed in a ''mamluk'' revolt.<ref>Drory 2006, p. 24.</ref>
After his deposition, Kujuk returned to the care of his mother in the women's quarters in the Cairo Citadel.<ref name="Holt122">Holt 1986, p. 122.</ref> During the reign of Kujuk's half-brother as-Salih Isma'il (r. 1342–1345), Kujuk was seen by as-Salih Isma'il and his mother as a potential contender for the throne.<ref name="Holt122"/> In August 1345, as-Salih Isma'il died of an illness that he had been suffering from for months. His mother accused Kujuk's mother of having used sorcery to cause as-Salih Isma'il's illness.<ref name="Holt122"/> As a result, Kujuk was murdered in September 1345 at the age of eleven.<ref name="Bauden"/><ref name="Holt122"/>
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==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book|last1=Drory|first1=Joseph|editor1=Wasserstein, David J.|editor2=Ayalon, Ami|title=Mamluks and Ottomans: Studies in Honour of Michael Winter|publisher=Routledge|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SMGSTgfU7CQC&pg=PA19|chapter=The Prince who Favored the Desert: Fragmentary Biography of al-Nasir Ahmad (d. 745/1344)|year=2006|isbn=9781136579172}} *{{cite book|last1=Holt|first1=Peter Malcolm|title=The Age of the Crusades: The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 151|date=1986|publisher=Addison Wesley Longman Limited|isbn=9781317871521|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TqasAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA122}} {{refend}}
{{S-start}} {{s-hou|Bahri dynasty||1334||September 1345|Mamluk Sultanate}} {{s-reg}} {{s-bef||before=Al-Mansur Abu Bakr}} {{s-ttl|title=Sultan of Egypt and Syria|years=August 1341 – 21 January 1342 |regent1=Qawsun}} {{s-aft|after=An-Nasir Ahmad}} {{s-end}}
{{Mamluk Sultans of Egypt}}
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