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04931aam a2200517Ii 4500 001 F28D628C323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 008 200320t20202020nyuabe b 001 0deng d 010 $a 2019053130 020 $a 9780190873202 020 $a 0190873205 035 $a (OCoLC)1145080744 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d CAM $d UKMGB $d GZN $d NUI $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a f-ua--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/f-ua 050 00 $a DT96.3.S54 $b R84 2020 050 4 $a NA350 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification/N 082 04 $a 723-724 100 1 $a Ruggles, D. Fairchild, $e author. $4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98038708 245 10 $a Tree of pearls : $b the extraordinary architectural patronage of the 13th-century Egyptian slave-queen Shajar al-Durr / $c D. Fairchild Ruggles. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xi, 188 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; $c 25 cm 340 $p plan $2 rdaill $0 http://rdaregistry.info/termList/IllusContent/1011 340 $p illustration $2 rdaill $0 http://rdaregistry.info/termList/IllusContent/1014 340 $p map $2 rdaill $0 http://rdaregistry.info/termList/IllusContent/1008 520 8 $a Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to the Ayyubid Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his favorite concubine, was manumitted, became the sultan's wife, served as governing regent, and ultimately rose to become the legitimately appointed sultan of Egypt in 1250 after her husband's death. Shajar al-Durr used her wealth and power to add a tomb to his urban madrasa; with this innovation, madrasas and many other charitably endowed architectural complexes became commemorative monuments, a practice that remains widespread today. A highly unusual case of a Muslim woman authorized to rule in her own name, her reign ended after only three months when she was forced to share her governance with an army general from the ranks of the Mamluks (elite slave soldiers) and for political expediency to marry him.Despite the fact that Shajar al-Durr's story ends tragically with her assassination and hasty burial, her deeds in her lifetime offer a stark alternative to the continued belief that women in the medieval period were unseen, anonymous, and inconsequential in a world that belonged to men. This biography-the first ever in English-will place the rise and fall of the sultan-queen in the wider context of the cultural and architectural development of Cairo, the city that still holds one of the largest and most important collections of Islamic monuments in the world. D. Fairchild Ruggles also situates the queen's extraordinary architectural patronage in relation to other women of her own time, such as Aleppo's Ayyubid regent. 'Tree of Pearls' concludes with a lively discussion of what we can know about the material impact of women of both high and lesser social rank in this period, and why their impact matters in the writing of history. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-184) and index. 600 00 $a Shajarat al-Durr, $c Sultana of Egypt, $d -1257. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82164355 600 07 $a Shajarat al-Durr, $c Sultana of Egypt, $d -1257. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1846959 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1846959 650 0 $a Islamic architecture $z Cairo. $z Cairo. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009127639 650 0 $a Monuments $z Cairo. $z Cairo. 650 0 $a Queens $z Egypt $v Biography. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110312 650 0 $a Sultans $z Egypt $v Biography. 650 7 $a Islamic architecture. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1730262 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1730262 650 7 $a Monuments. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1025892 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1025892 650 7 $a Queens. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1085637 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1085637 650 7 $a Sultans. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1138427 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1138427 651 0 $a Egypt $x History. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041284 651 7 $a Egypt. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1208755 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1208755 651 7 $a Egypt $z Cairo. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1205204 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1205204 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919896 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317030344.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F28D628C323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search