Al-Ashraf Khalil

Al-Ashraf Khalil

Al-Malik al-Ashraf Salāh al-Dīn Khalil ibn Qalawūn (Arabic: الملك الأشرف صلاح الدين خليل بن قلاوون‎); (b. c. 1262, Cairo – d. 14 December 1293, Kom Turuga) was the eighth Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 1290 until his assassination in December, 1293. He is most famous for conquering the last of the Crusader states in Palestine with the capture of Acre in 1291.

Read more about Al-Ashraf Khalil:  Background, Conquest of Acre, Capture of Tyre, Sidon, Beirut, Haifa and Tartus, Domestic Conflicts and Assassination, Coins of Al-Ashraf Khalil