Rise To Power
Feeling uneasy when the Syrian Emirs refused to pay homage to Shajar Addur and granted Damascus to an-Nasir Yusuf the Ayyubbid emir of Aleppo, Shajar al-Durr married Aybak then abdicated and passed the throne to Aybak after she ruled Egypt for 80 days.
Aybak, the new sultan of Egypt, was given the royal name al-Malik al-Muizz. Until then, Aybak relied foremost on four Mamluks: Faris ad-Din Aktai, Baibars al-Bunduqdari, Qutuz and Bilban al-Rashidi.
To consolidate the position of Aybak, and attempting to satisfy their opponents in Syria and Baghdad, the Mamluks installed the 6-year-old al-malik Sharaf Muzafer al-Din Musa, who was one of the Syrian branch of the Ayyubid family as a Sultan and announced that Aybak is merely a representative of the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad. In addition, and to display his loyalty to his deceased Ayyubid master as-Salih Ayyub, Aybak made funeral ceremony for as-Salih and buried him in the tomb which as-Salih built before his death near his Madrasah in the district of Bain al-Qasrain in Cairo.
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