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Article: SCHOLARLY VIEWS OF SHAJARAT AL-DURR: A NEED FOR CONSENSUS [1].
- Article from:
- Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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IN THE COURSE OF HER LIFE and political career, the Egyptian sultana, Shajarat al-Duff played many roles and held great influence at the Ayyubid and Mamluk courts. She served as a military leader, a mother, and a sultana successfully until her fall from power in 1257. G[acute{o}]tz Schregle has suggested that Shajara's political importance resulted from the role she played during an important period of Egyptian and Middle Eastern history. [2] The Egyptian sultanate shifted from the Ayyubids to the Mamluks in the 1250s. Louis IX of France led the Sixth Crusade into Egypt, took Damietta and advanced down the Nile before the Mamluks stopped this army at Mansura. In the midst ...
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