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'Faris ad-Din Aktai al-Jemdar' ( Arabic: فارس الدين أقطاى الجمدار ) (d.1254)
Not to be confused with his namesake and contemporary the commander in chief 'Faris ad-Din Aktai al-Mostareb' ( Arabic : فارس الدين أقطاى المستعرب )
Was an Emir (prince) and the leader of the Mamluks of the Bahri dynasty. When the Ayyobid Sultan as-Salih Ayyub died he was sent to Hasankeyf to recall Turanshah, the son and heir of the dead sultan, to Egypt. During the Battle of al-Mansurah he was one of the Mamluke commanders who defeated the Frank forces led by the French king Louis IX.
He was one of the Mamlukes who took part in the murder of Turanshah after the battle of al-Mansurah.
During the era of Sultan Aybak, he led the Egyptian forces that defeated the army of the Ayyubid ruler of Syria an-Nasir Yusuf in Gaza and, as a general, he played a crucial role in the final defeat of an-Nasir Yusuf in the battle of Kora.
Together with ''Faris ad-Din Aktai al-Mostareb'', he suppressed a major rebel led by ''al-Sharif Hesn ad-Din Thalab'' (Arabic: الشريف حصن الدين ثعلب) in middle and upper Egupt.
He conquered parts of Syria and excersised control over the port city of Alexandira in northern Egypt.
Feeling that Aktai and his Mamlukes were defying his authority and almost installed a state within his state, Aybak decided to kill him.
In a conspiracy involving Aybak, Qutuz and some Mamlukes, Aktai was murdered in the sultan's fort and his Mamnlukes, including his friend Baibars al-bunduqari, fled to Syria and Karak.

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★ Bahri dynasty

★ Mamluk