Ali Abd Amal

al-Hamid Ali Abd Amal (born 1280, Cairo), also known as the Teacher or the Scholar, is the current Sultan of Egypt and Syria, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, Amir of al-Iskandariyyah, Ibn Abu al-Futuh, Muad'Dib. He succeeded to the sultanate in 1312, after his father, Barakah, fell ill and died from a stroke whilst concluding the most recent conflict with his northern Byzantine neighbors.
Though not as martially inclined as his predecessors, as a prince Amal was deeply involved in his father's administrative reforms, purging the taxation system of its inefficiencies and corruption before it became too established, sponsoring expeditions along the eastern coastline of Africa and refounding of the House of Wisdom, rebuilding the structure which had once been burnt to ashes by the Mongol Invasions.
Domestically, his early reign was noted for the establishment of several official provinces or Emirites, each ruled by a directly appointed regional governor who in turn answered to the Sultan, whilst strengthening the centralized power of the Sultan's Egyptian heartlands through the growing palace bureaucracy and the marriage of himself to Nabilia bint Al-Hakim, the daughter of the Caliph, to whom he had take his eldest son and heir Ammar, into his household for education in an apparent move to merge the Bahri Dynastic power with the religious authority of the Caliph.
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