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jim shihirat al-nisa'. This book first appeared in 1978 in Libya and
Tunisia. Dr Tayyibi found the manuscript in the Chester Beatty
Library in Dublin and edited and published it.
44 'Umar Kahhala, A 'lam al-nisa'fi 'almay al-'Arabi wa al-Islami (Beirut:
Mu'assasa al-Risala, 1982).
45 Jacques Le Goff, 'Les mentalites: une histoire ambigue', in Faire de
Vhistoire: Les nouveaux objets (Paris: Gallimard, 1974), vol. 3, p. 125.
46 Badriye Uc.ok Un, Al-nisa' al-hakimat fi tarikh, tr. I. Daquqi
(Baghdad: Matba'a al-Sa'dun, 1973).
47 Ibid., p. 25.
CHAPTER 6 FIFTEEN QUEENS
1 Badriye Uc,ok Un, Al-nisa' al-hakimat fi tarikh, tr. I. Daquqi
(Baghdad: Matba'a al-Sa'dun, 1973), p. 33.
2 Ibid.
3 See an illustration of this coin in Nelson Wright, Catalogue of the
Coins in the Indian Museum (Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1907),
vol. 2, p. 26. Quoted by Ucpk Un, Al-nisa' al-hakimat, p. 4.
4 This formulaic prayer is found in various sources with slight differences
in wording. For instance: Al-Suyuti, Al-mustazraf min akhbar aljawari,
annotated by Salah al-Din al-Munajid (Beirut: Dar al-Kitab
al-Jadid, 1976), p. 23; Ashur, Misr wa al-Sham fi qasr al-Ayyubiyin
wa al-mamalik (Beirut: Dar al-Nahda al-'Arabiyya, 1972), p. 158;
Yasin al-Khatib al-'Amri, Al-rawda al-fayha fi tawarikh al-nisa', ed.
'Imad 'AH Amra (n.p.: Dar al-'Alamiyya, 1987), p. 382; and al-
Maqrizi, Al-Khitat (Cairo: Maktaba al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 1987), vol.
2, p. 237.
5 Al-Mansuri Kitab al-tuhfa al-mulukiyya fi al-dawla al-Turqiyya (Beirut
and Cairo: Dar al-Misriyya al-Lubnaniyya, 1987). The author died in
year 725 of the Hejira (fourteenth century). See also Hanbali, Shazarat
(see ch. 1 n. 31 above), vol. 5, pp. 267ff.
6 On the Mamluks see: Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edn (Leiden: E. J.
Brill, 1960), article on 'Mamluks'; S. Lane-Poole, The Mohammadan
Dynasties: Chronological and Genealogical Tables with Historical Introductions
(London: Constable, 1894), p. 80 for the Mamluks of Egypt,
and p. 299 for the Mamluks of Delhi; Ahmad al-Sa'id Sulayman,
Tarikh al-duwal al-Islamiyya wa mu'jam al-usar al-hakima (Cairo: Dar
al-Ma'arif, 1969), p. 161 for the Mamluks of Egypt.
7 Shajarat al-Durr is one of the best-known sultanas; she is never ignored
by the historians. See also biographies of her in the following: 'Umar
Kahhala, A'lam al-nisa'fi 'almay al-'Arabi wa al-Islami (Beirut: Mu'assasa
al-Risala, 1982); Zarkali, A'lam (see ch. 1 n. 32 above); Zaynab