Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri
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Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri was the last of the Mamluk Sultans. One of the last of the Burji dynasty, he reigned from 1501 to 1516.[1]
Sultan al-Ghawri led his army against the Ottoman Turks under Selim I in the Battle of Marj Dabiq, north of Aleppo, on August 24, 1516; the betrayal of two Mamluk leaders (Janberdi Al-Ghazali and Khayr Beg) led to the the Mamluk defeat and to the death of the Sultan Qansuh Al-Ghawri. This marked the end of Mamluk control of the Middle East that eventually passed to the Ottomans.
