Al-Adil II

Al-Malik al-ʿĀdil Sayf ad-Dīn Abū Bakr ibn Nāṣir ad-Dīn Muḥammad (Arabic: سيف الدين الملك العادل أبو بكر بن ناصر الدين محمد, better known as al-Adil II) (c. 1221 – 9 February 1248) was the Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt from 1238 to 1240.

When his father al-Kamil, nephew of Saladin, died in 1238, al-Adil II followed him somewhat unprepared. When the country plunged into anarchy, his exiled half-brother, as-Salih Ayyub, seized the opportunity and deposed him. Al-Adil died in prison eight years later.

Contemporary Muslim historians wrote disapprovingly about al-Adil II's "boisterous living and loose morals".^: 308 This is seemingly corroborated by an inlaid brass basin made for him by the master craftsman Ahmad al-Dhaki al-Mawsili which contains a "somewhat risqué" depiction of total nudity, the only known example from medieval Islamic metalwork.^: 308

See also

• List of rulers of Egypt

References

1. Al-Kamil
2. As-Salih Ayyub
3. Saif al-Adel
4. Al-Adil I
5. List of Ayyubid rulers
6. Adil
7. Al-Salih Ismail, Emir of Damascus
8. Ayyubid dynasty
9. Al-Adil (disambiguation)
10. Adil Shahi dynasty
11. Sayf al-Din
12. Nazim Al-Haqqani
13. Abdallah al-Adil
14. An-Nasir Dawud
15. Qutuz
16. Abu Bakr (name)
17. Crusades
18. Fakhr al-Din ibn al-Shaykh
19. Sultan of Egypt
20. Ahmad al-Dhaki al-Mawsili