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37 Maqrizi, Khitat, p. 238.
38 As one finds many women on the political scene of that time with the
name of Turkan Khatun, in order to avoid confusion I will refer to
this one as Kutlugh Khatun.
39 Encyclopedia of Islam, article on 'Kirman'.
40 Ibid., article on 'Kutlugh Khanids'.
41 Ibid.
42 Encyclopedia of Islam, article on 'Ilkhans'.
43 Uc.ok Un, Al-nisa' al-hakimat, p. 83; Encyclopedia of Islam, article
on 'Kutlugh Khanids'.
44 Encyclopedia of Islam, article on 'Kirman'.
45 Ibid.; on the Mongol dynasty see also Lane-Poole, Mohammadan
Dynasties.
46 Erman, Zeitschrift fur Numismatik (1880), quoted in Ucjok Un, Alnisa'
al-hakimat, p. 98.
47 Almost all the sources on these two queens in particular and the
Khutlugh Khanids in general, whether it be Ugok Un or the Encyclopedia
of Islam, refer to the same book, Simt al-ula, written in 716/1316
by Nasir al-Din, son of Khawaja Muntajab al-Din Yazdi, confidant of
Kutb al-Din (manuscript in Paris, BN Persan 1377, fol. 125).
48 Ibn Battuta, Travels of Ibn Battuta (see ch. 1 n. 10 above), vol. 2, p.
340.
49 Ibid., p. 342.
50 Ibid., pp. 485-6.
51 Ibid., pp. 343-4.
52 Ibid., pp. 482-3.
53 Ibid., p. 483.
54 Ibid. I have to say that, for an Arab woman like me, having my hand
kissed by a Western man creates both troubling emotions and a shiver
of pleasure. Why? Because I was always trained to kiss the hand of
men, beginning with my father and my uncles. Even now, my older
cousins, in a teasing gesture, never fail to offer me the back of their
hand to put me in my traditional place.
55 Ibn Battuta, Travels of Ibn Battuta, vol. 2, pp. 485-9.
56 After Ahmad, there were Arghun (683/1284-690/1291), Gaykhatu
(690/1291-694/1284), and Baydu (in power during 694-5/1295); finally
Ghazan, the seventh Ilkhan, who took power in 694/1295, declared
himself a Muslim.
57 Encyclopedia of Islam, article on 'Ilkhans'.
58 According to U§ok Un, Absh Khatun was the daughter of Bibi
Khatun, one of the daughters of Turkan Khatun, the sovereign of
Kirman, who then would have been her grandmother.
59 U?ok Un, Al-nisa' al-hakimat, pp. lOlff.
60 U