Shajarat al Durr: From Slave to Sultana of Egypt

Hindsight by Al Jazeera Media Network

Jun 4, 202544:34Society & Culture

Shajarat al Durr was born in the golden age of Islam. Despite her beginnings as a child slave, she went on to become the first woman to sit on the throne of Egypt since Cleopatra nearly 13-hundred years before. But in hi...

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