شجر الدر سلطانة مصر
شجر الدر سلطانة مصر
Al-Malik al-Salih's slave-girl Umm Khalil; she hid his death through the Damietta crisis, and on Turanshah's murder was raised sultana — the Turks swearing to her — before Aybak took the throne beside then without her. In 655 she killed him 1.
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- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
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Overview
Shajar al-Durr, slave-girl of al-Malik al-Salih Ayyub and mother of Khalil. She was known as the sultana of Egypt 2.
After the death of al-Salih Ayyub
She concealed his death in the year 647 AH, when the Franks took Damietta, until his son Turan Shah arrived. When Turan Shah was killed by his father's mamluks, they made her their ruler. The Turks swore allegiance to her and to her deputy Izz al-Din Aybak. She began to issue appointments to the amirs and grants 2.
Aybak
Aybak then made himself sultan on his own, took the title al-Malik al-Mu'izz, and the sermon was given in the names of both of them, and coins were struck in their names. In the year 655 AH she killed him 2.
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Connections
- Participated in
- قتل شجر الدر زوجها عز الدين أيبك· قتل توران شاه وسلطنة شجر الدر
People and things also explored
عز الدين أيبك التركماني الملك المعز· توران شاه الملك المعظم بن الملك الصالح· قتل شجر الدر زوجها عز الدين أيبك· قتل توران شاه وسلطنة شجر الدر
Sources
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 709-710
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p.709-710
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islam.museum contributors. “شجر الدر سلطانة مصر”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shajar-al-durr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.