[3] There, he held a royal ceremony in honor of his mother in which he laid out her table and served her food that he personally prepared.

[3] He declared her honorary sultan, accorded her regalia and assigned her servants and slave girls to play the role of her emirs.

[4] His installment in the sultanate was a result of a decision by the senior Mamluk emirs, namely Taz and Baybugha in response to an-Nasir Hasan's move to assert real control over the state.

na'ib) of Safad, Hama and Tripoli were ultimately imprisoned, and Byabugha died while incarcerated in Aleppo later that year.

[5] In October 1354, the dissident emirs toppled Salih and restored an-Nasir Hasan to power, while sending Taz to Aleppo to serve as that province's na'ib (effectively exiling him).