D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Tree of Pearls, the Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the Thirteenth Century Egyptian Slave Queen Shagereldour
This is tree of pearls rising to become sultan. That's what matronage is. For that that dynasty would not exist if it was not for these women and their bodies bearing them sons. So i was trying to kind of interrogate that and play with that a little bit in that chapter aeer to think about. And we talk about shageradur as as a unique individual, right? She was this crazy example of a woman who rules. But its like everybody who rises to become s Sultan is unusual and distinctive, portant, and they break the mould. All these people are unusual. It almost says that all the men who become sultan are not exceptional,
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