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Notes 203<br />

Fawwaz al-'Amili, Al-durr al-manthur fi tabaqat rabbat al-khudur<br />

(Bulaq: Al-Matba'a al-Kubra, 1985); 'Abdallah Inan, Tarajim, <strong>Islam</strong>iyya<br />

sharkiyya wa andalusiyya (Cairo: Dar al-Ma'arif, 1947), p. 61;<br />

'Ali Ibrahim Hasan, Nisa' lahunna fi al-tarikh al-<strong>Islam</strong>i nasib (Cairo:<br />

Maktaba al-Nahda al-Misriyya, 1970), p. 115; 'Amri, Rawda; Uc,ok<br />

Un, Al-nisa' al-hakimat, p. 46.<br />

8 Mansuri, Kitab al-tuhfa, p. 28.<br />

9 Ibid.<br />

10 Encyclopedia <strong>of</strong> <strong>Islam</strong>, article on 'Mamluks'; see also Maqrizi, Khitat,<br />

vol. 2.<br />

11 Encyclopedia <strong>of</strong> <strong>Islam</strong>, article on 'Mamluks'.<br />

12 Ibid.<br />

13 Ibid.<br />

14 Muhammad Yusuf al-Najrami, Al-'alaqa al-siyasiyya wa thaqafiyya<br />

bayna al-Hind wa al-khilafa al-'Abbasiyya (Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, 1979),<br />

pp. 122ff; see also Encyclopedia <strong>of</strong> <strong>Islam</strong>, article on 'Iltutmish'.<br />

15 We have seen that among the Mamluks <strong>of</strong> Egypt, who were organized<br />

into a military caste with its schools, rituals, and symbols, emancipation<br />

took place automatically upon completion. Apparently the Mamluks<br />

had different rules for emancipation than did others.<br />

16 <strong>The</strong> Rehla <strong>of</strong> Ibn Battuta (see ch. 1. no. 10 above), p. 33.<br />

17 Ibid.<br />

18 Ishwary Prashad, Medieval History <strong>of</strong> India, 88, quoted in Najrami,<br />

Al-'alaqa al-siyasiyya, p. 125.<br />

19 Rehla <strong>of</strong> Ibn Battuta, p. 33.<br />

20 Ibid.<br />

21 Ibid., p. 34.<br />

22 Ibid.<br />

23 U§ok Un, Al-nisa' al-hakimat, p. 36.<br />

24 Najrami, Al-'alaqa al-siyasiyya, p. 125.<br />

25 Kahhala, A'lam al-nisa', vol. 1, p. 448; Najrami, Al-'alaqa al-siyasiyya,<br />

p. 125.<br />

26 Kahhala, A'lam al-nisa', vol. 1, p. 450.<br />

27 Rehla <strong>of</strong> Ibn Battuta, p. 34.<br />

28 Ibn Battuta, Rihla (Beirut: Dar Beirut, 1985), p. 423; French translation<br />

(see ch. 1 n. 10 above), p. 371.<br />

29 Rehla <strong>of</strong> Ibn Battuta, p. 35.<br />

30 Ibid.<br />

31 Zarkali, A'lam, vol. 4, p. 142.<br />

32 All the biographies used here outdo themselves in praising her beauty<br />

and intellectual gifts. <strong>The</strong> quotation is from Zarkali, A'lam.<br />

33 Ibid.<br />

34 'Amri, Rawda, p. 387.<br />

35 Maqrizi, quoted in Inan, Tarajim <strong>Islam</strong>iyya, p. 92.<br />

36 Ibid.

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