Al-Said Barakah

Al-Malik al-Said Nasir al-Din Barakah (Arabic: الملك السعيد ناصر الدين بركة, c. 1260, Cairo – 20 January 1312, Cairo), sometimes known as the Lion Sultan, was the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria from 1287 to 1312.
His long, successful and prosperous rule is often considered a golden age of the Islamic civilization in the Middle East. Barakah expanded his sultanate's borders to encompass all of Mesopotamia and expelled the last of the Crusaders from the Levant, absorbing most of the former Crusader kingdoms under his rule. He is also known for introducing significant administrative reforms in his realm, creating the embryo of a country-side imperial bureaucracy and strengthening Mamluk central authority. He was succeeded upon his death by his son Amal, consolidating the rule of the Bahri dynasty over Egypt and Syria.
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