“Pearl tree” and “Lord of the moon”: an origin of Mamluk state
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The article is based on Arabic sources, classic and contemporary works of Russian and foreign scientists. One of the most important Arabic sources discussed in this article is a chronic “Zubdat al-Fikra fi Ta’rikh al-Hijra” of Beibars al-Mansuri (d. in 1325), who himself was of mamluk origin. The article is concerned with the main events of the period from 1249 — the death of the Ayyubid sultan Al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub — to 1257, when his widow Shadjarat ad-Durr was killed. The Ayyubid dynasty came to the end, and the Mamluks come to power. One of the figures of the political life of that period in Egypt was a widow of the penultimate Ayyubid sultan, Shadjarat ad-Durr, who became the ruler of Egypt. Refs 14.
Keywords:
Mamluks, Ayyubid dynasty, Shajarat al-Durr, Egypt, Syria
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