“Pearl tree” and “Lord of the moon”: an origin of Mamluk state

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  • Евгений Ильич Зеленев National Research University Higher School of Economics

Abstract

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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2013-12-20

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Зеленев, Е. И. (2013). “Pearl tree” and “Lord of the moon”: an origin of Mamluk state. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, (4), 25–31. Retrieved from https://aasjournal.spbu.ru/article/view/2257

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No. 4 (2013)

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History and source studies

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