al-Adil II.

Al- Adid II, with full name Sayf al -Din al -Malik al - Adil Abu Bakr ibn Nasir ad-Din Muhammad (Arabic سيف الدين الملك العادل أبو بكر بن ناصر الدين محمد, DMG Sayf al - Din al -Malik al - ʿ Adil Abu Bakr b Nasir ad - Dīn Muḥammad; . * 1222, † 1248 ), was from 1238 to 1240, the fifth Sultan of the Ayyubids in Egypt.

Al- Adil II was a son of the Sultan al - Kamil. After his death in 1238 he was at the age of 18 years, Sultan of Cairo. In the following years again broke out fierce power struggles among the Ayyubids. He did not succeed, to prevail against his relatives in Syria. The weakening of the Ayyubid by the Civil War was used by the Mongol conquest of northern Iraq. In addition came in 1239, in time for the Peace of Jerusalem Jaffa in the Kingdom of leakage a crusade army under Theobald IV of Champagne ( crusade of the barons ) to that occupied Ashkelon and finally reattached. In the inner-Islamic power struggles ultimately al - Adils half brother Salih Ayyub as- prevailed. According to Runciman al - Adil II had pushed his ministers on the head by the government entrusted to a young black man, the was his love. A successful conspiracy put him in late May or early June 1240 from, and as- Salih Ayyub was invited to take over the throne of Egypt.

Al- Adil II remained in captivity until he died in 1248. According to Abu al - Fida, he left behind a young son named al - Moghith Feth ad-Din Umar.