Shajar al-Durr

Japanese: シャジャル･アッドゥッル（英語表記）Shajar al‐Durr

?-1257
The first sultan of the Mamluk dynasty. Reigned 1250. The only female sultan in Islamic history (her birth is unknown, but she may have been of Turkish or Armenian descent). She was a slave lady at the palace, but she won the favor of the 7th Ayyubid sultan, Saleh, and became his legal wife, giving birth to a boy (who died in infancy). Her husband died while they were moving south through the Delta region after the 7th Crusade attacked Egypt, but she concealed this and saved the country from crisis. When her son-in-law, the 8th sultan, was murdered by his father's private soldiers (a slave army known as the Bahri Mamluks), they recommended her as sultan and she ruled Egypt (for 80 days).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

？‐1257
マムルーク朝初代スルタン。在位1250年。イスラム史上唯一の女性スルタン(出生は不明であるが，トルコまたはアルメニア系か)。宮廷の奴隷女官であったが，アイユーブ朝第7代スルタン，サーリフの寵愛をうけて正妻となり男児を生む(幼少で没)。第7回十字軍がエジプトを襲ってデルタ地帯を南下中に夫が死去するが，これを隠して国難を救う。義理の息子の第8代スルタンが父の私兵たち(バフリー･マムルークとよばれる奴隷軍団)によって殺害されると，彼らに推挙されてスルタンとなり，エジプトの地を統治(80日間)する。

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