Qawsun

Sayf ad-Din Qawsun
Sayf ad-Din Qawsun
سيف الدين قوصون
	Enamelled glass mosque lamp of Amir Qawsun, probably intended for one of his two architectural commissions in Cairo —the mosque or a tomb-hospice complex. Metropolitan Museum of Art
Emir of Mamluk Sultanate
	In office; 1330s – 7 June 1341
Monarch	an-Nasir Muhammad
	In office; 7 June 1341 – 5 August 1341
Monarch	al-Mansur Abu Bakr
Regent of Mamluk Saltanat
	In office; 5 August 1341 – 21 January 1342
Monarch	al-Ashraf Kujuk
Personal details
Born	1302
Died	April 1342 (aged 39–40); Alexandria, Mamluk Egypt
Nationality	Mongol, then Mamluk

Sayf ad-Din Qawsun ibn Abdullah an-Nasiri as-Saqi (1302 – April 1342), commonly known as Qawsun (also spelled Qausun or Qusun) was a prominent Mamluk emir during the reigns of sultans an-Nasir Muhammad (r. 1310–41), al-Mansur Abu Bakr (r. 1341) and al-Ashraf Kujuk (r. 1341–42).