Qutlubugha al-Fakhri
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Qutlubugha al-Fakhri (died May/June 1342) was a Mamluk emir during the reigns of sultans an-Nasir Muhammad (r. 1310–1341), al-Mansur Abu Bakr (r. 1341), al-Ashraf Kujuk (r. 1341–1342) and an-Nasir Ahmad (r. 1342). Qutlubugha had been purchased by an-Nasir Muhammad, who promoted him to the highest Mamluk military rank. He was demoted and exiled to Syria under the protection of Emir Tankiz in 1327 after an-Nasir Muhammad held him responsible for an incident which could have potentially caused a mutiny of Qutlubugha's mamluks against the sultan.
After an-Nasir Muhammad's death, Qutlubugha was commissioned by the strongman of Egypt, Emir Qawsun, to arrest their former master's son, an-Nasir Ahmad. After besieging the latter in al-Karak for twenty days, Qutlubugha defected to an-Nasir Ahmad. Thereafter, he and his closest ally, Emir Tashtamur Hummus Akhdar of Aleppo, launched a campaign to topple Qawsun and his puppet sultan, al-Ashraf Kujuk, and place an-Nasir Ahmad on the throne. They succeeded in January 1342, but their high-ranking positions in the new government was cut short when each was arrested on an-Nasir Ahmad's orders. The reason for Qutlubugha's arrest was unclear. It was likely related to an-Nasir Ahmad's resentment toward Qutlubugha for playing the key role in installing him as sultan and thus taking him away from his isolated stronghold of al-Karak, which he preferred to the Mamluk capital in Cairo. An-Nasir Ahmad brought Qutlubugha and Tashtamur to al-Karak when he moved the sultanate there in May 1342 and subsequently had them executed.