 These mamluks were called the "Salihiyyah" (singular "Salihi") after their master.As-Salih became sultan of Egypt in 1240, and upon his accession to the Ayyubid throne, he manumitted and promoted large numbers of his original and newly recruited mamluks on the condition that they remain in his service.To provision his mamluks, as-Salih forcibly seized the iqtaʿat (fiefs; singular "iqtaʿ") of his predecessors' emirs.