Tuman bay II

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Al-Ashraf Tuman Bay
Portrait of Tuman bay II by Paolo Giovio
Sultan of Egypt
Reign	17 October 1516 – 15 April 1517
Coronation	1516 Cairo
Predecessor	Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri
Successor	Yunus Pasha (As Ottoman Wālis of Egypt)
Spouse	Khawand Aisha[1]
House	Burji Dynasty
Religion	Sunni Islam

Al-Ashraf Abu Al-Nasr Tuman Bay (Arabic: الأشرف أبو النصر طومان باي), better known as Tuman Bay II and Tumanbay II (طومان باي; c. 1476 – 15 April 1517) was the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt before the country's conquest by the Ottoman Empire in 1517.^[2] He ascended to the sultanic throne during the final period of Mamluk rule in Egypt, after the defeat of Sultan Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri by Ottoman Sultan Selim I at the Battle of Marj Dabiq the year prior.^[3] He was the last person to hold the title of Sultan of Egypt until the re-establishment of the sultanate 397 years later under Hussein Kamel in 1914.

A Circassian who like his predecessors had been a domestic slave of the palace, Tuman gradually rose to the position of prime minister, an office he held until the departure of Sultan Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri, who left him in charge of Cairo.^[3] His rise to power was clouded by conflict in Syria, disordered troops, distracted emirs, and a mercenary horde of Mamluks.^[3]