Amir Husain al-Kurdi

Amir Husain al-Kurdi, known to the Portuguese as Mirocem, was the leading Mamluk naval commander under Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri and governor of Jeddah, whose fortifications he raised to secure the Red Sea pilgrimage route against the Portuguese.

In 1508 he joined the Gujarati admiral Malik Ayyaz to defeat and kill Lourenco de Almeida at Chaul. The next year Francisco de Almeida avenged his son by crushing Husain's fleet at Diu. In 1517 he helped an Ottoman squadron repel the Portuguese from Jeddah. He died later that same year.