[1] He was also reassigned as na'ib of Ruha (Edessa), a post which he reluctantly accepted,[2] literally refusing the new assignment in the morning then relenting before the end of the day.

[1] During the sultanate of Jaqmaq, in 1442,[5] Inal was appointed to the high-ranking post of dawadar kabir ("grand executive secretary") and became a member of the ruling council.

")[2] On 2 July 1450, Inal, Jaqmaq and Tamam bin Abd al-Raziq, the emir al-majlis ("Commander of the Council"), were encircled by the julban on their way to the citadel.

Before reaching the citadel they came across Zayn al-Din Yahya, the ustadar ("major-domo") and a leading figure of the julban, and beat him with their cudgels forcing him to flee.

On 12 March, his forces besieged the Cairo Citadel, arrested all of the royal emirs and officially renounced their loyalty to Uthman, demanding the installation of Inal as sultan.

[2] The 15th-century Egyptian historian Ibn Taghribirdi noted that most of the city's residents conducted their business as usual, while some went to Rumayla Square to "enjoy the sight of battle.

[2] Inal's reign was particularly noted by historians for the severe absence of restraint among the roughly 1,000 mamluks under his direct authority,[11][12] known as the julban or ajlab.

[11] While Inal and his close circle of officials were notably less tyrannical and brutal than their predecessors,[13] the transgressions of the julban created an environment of fear and insecurity.

[8] On 15 June 1455, Inal faced a mutiny by roughly 500 of his Circassian mamluks after assembling them to launch an expedition against Bedouin tribesmen invading al-Buhayra Province (the Delta region.

They attempted to assassinate Yunus al-Aqba'i, Inal's executive secretary, as he departed from the Cairo Citadel, but his bodyguards warded off the attackers, wounding a few of them.

[6] The mutineers were then joined by the recently dismissed Zahiris (the faction which Inal originally hailed from) and subsequently besieged the citadel, demanding higher salaries and the handing over of Yunus.

The Ottomans' capture of Constantinople and later conquests of Serbia were well received in Cairo which hosted several festivities celebrating the Byzantine capital's fall to fellow Muslims.

In addition to several visits between the gift-carrying ambassadors of the two sultanates, Inal sent his personal congratulations to Mehmed II in a poem and versified dispatch.

As the uprising grew, Inal bowed to mamluk pressure and ordered the preparation of a large naval fleet to place James as King of Cyprus.

[15] The campaign failed to install James as king after Queen Charlotte received military assistance from Pope Pius II and the County of Savoy.

[20] In 1457 Inal commissioned the construction of two hamaams ("public bathes") and a large rab ("communal residence") in the Bayn al-Qasrayn District.

[20] On a visit to the important Bulaq port along the banks of the Nile River on 28 March 1458, Inal was repulsed at the scene of its crowded and dilapidated buildings and structures.

[15] Afterward he summoned Caliph al-Mustanjid and his legal scholars and conveyed to them his will that Ahmad,[23] his eldest son and emir al-hajj ("commander of the pilgrimage [to Mecca]"),[24] should succeed him.

[15] Ahmad ruled for four months before peacefully abdicating on 28 June as a result of pressure from an alliance of powerful mamluk factions opposed to his leadership, including the Zahiris, Ashrafis, Nasiris and his own Mu'ayyadis.