Crackdown On Mamluks
In a conspiracy with Qutuz and a few Mamluks, Aybak invited Aktai to the citadel and had him murdered. Watching the head of Aktai thrown out the citadel, the Bahariyya Mamluks, among them Baibars al-Bunduqdari and Qalawun al-Alfi, fled during the night to Damascus, Al-Karak and the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm . Aybak plundered the properties of the Bahariyya Mamluks and retracted Alexandria which Aktai controlled as own domain since 1252. Those who could not flee were either imprisoned or executed. As soon as he finished with Aktai and his Bahariyya Mamluks, Aybak dethroned the child cosultan al-Shraf Musa and sent him back to his aunts' house which was his home before they made him a cosultan. Now Aybak was the absolute and sole ruler of Egypt and parts of Syria but shortly afterwards he settled a new agreement with an-Nasir Yusuf which limited his power to Egypt only.
In 1255 a new rebellion led by his namesake Izz al-Din Aybak al-Afram arose in upper Egypt and forces of an-Nasir Yusuf arrived to the Egyptian border, this time accompanied by the Bahariyya Mamluks who fled to Syria, including Baibars al-Bunduqdari and Qalawun al-Alfi.
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