al-Nasir Ahmad

Al-Nasir Shihab al-Din Ahmad (1316–1344), a son of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad, was Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt from January to June 1342. As a boy he was sent to the desert fortress of al-Karak to learn horsemanship, and he never stopped preferring it to Cairo.

After his father died in 1341, the strongman Qawsun ruled through a five-year-old puppet until emirs sympathetic to Ahmad ousted him; Ahmad still delayed his departure for Egypt. Two months into his reign he went back to al-Karak and governed through a deputy.

When he executed his own backers, his half-brother al-Salih Isma'il deposed him. The Mamluks repeatedly besieged al-Karak before Ahmad was captured in July 1344 and beheaded that month. Chroniclers judged him the worst of his father's sons.