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Shajarat al Durr: From Slave to Sultana of Egypt

Shajarat al Durr: From Slave to Sultana of Egypt

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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 hindsight, Shajarat al Durr’s life is a Cinderella story without the fairy tale ending.

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