Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus: . rson, a youth of tender years, who agreed to bejoint Sultan with Aibek, the names of both figuringon coins and being recited in the public prayer; butthe husband of Shajar al-durr was resolved to besole master, and utilised the treasures at his disposaifor the purchase of armed men. When sufficientlystrong, he entrapped one of the leaders of the oppo-sition in the Citadel, had him assassinated and hishead flung to his friends in the Rumailah rest of the opposition fled into Syria, amongthem two men, afterwards prominent as EgyptianSultans, Baibars an
Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus: . rson, a youth of tender years, who agreed to bejoint Sultan with Aibek, the names of both figuringon coins and being recited in the public prayer; butthe husband of Shajar al-durr was resolved to besole master, and utilised the treasures at his disposaifor the purchase of armed men. When sufficientlystrong, he entrapped one of the leaders of the oppo-sition in the Citadel, had him assassinated and hishead flung to his friends in the Rumailah rest of the opposition fled into Syria, amongthem two men, afterwards prominent as EgyptianSultans, Baibars and Kalaun. The Ayyubid princewas then imprisoned, and Aibek reigned alone. He now considered himself strong enough to dis-place his wife, Shajar al-durr, and sent to solicit thehand of a daughter of Badr al-din Lulu, prince ofMausil. This proceeding was foUowed by violentrécriminations on the part of the ex-Queen, to escapewhich Aibek abandoned the Citadel and went to ré-side in the new quarter called Luk, which, in conse- [io8]. THE FIRST MAMELUKE SOVEREIGNS quence of the innovations of al-Aziz and al-Kamilwas springing up between the Great Canal and theNile. Shajar al-durr contrived, however, by variousblandishments to allure him back to the Citadel:where she had arranged that five of her Byzantineeunuchs should murder him in his bath. The tragedy was not yet fînished. Aibek had lefta son, Ali, by another wife, whom Shajar al-durr hadforced him to put away when she raised him withherself to the throne. This son, having his fatherspraetorians at his mercy, handed his stepmother overto the tender mercies of his mother, who orderedher handmaids to beat the f allen Queen to death withtheir shoes. She was then stripped, dragged by thefeet, and flung into a ditch, where she remained un-buried three days. At the end of this time she wastaken out and interred in the mausoleum which shehad built for herself, and which still exists betweenthe Mashhads of Sayyidah Nafîsah and Sayyida
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