"During the reign of el-Ghuri, a far-sighted policy led the Sultan to enter into an alliance with the Venetians to oppose the installation of the Portuguese in India. Unfortunately the Mamluk fleet carried insufficient fire-power" in Splendours of an Islamic world by Henri Stierlin,Anne Stierlin p.40
"The Mamluk fleet was warmly greeted at Diu by its governor, Malik Ayyaz, a Russian Mamluk who had found favor with the king of Gujarat. Gujarat, which traded mainly through the Red Sea and Egypt, continued to resist the Portuguese" in A military history of modern Egypt: from the Ottoman Conquest to the Ramadan War by Andrew James McGregor p.20