تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.86.1

13.86.1

ومن عجائبها أن سلطانتها امرأة، وهي خديجة بنت السلطان جلال الدين عمر بن السلطان صلاح الدين صالح البنجالي ، وكان الملك لجدها ثم لأبيها، فلما مات أبوها ولي أخوها شهاب الدين وهو صغير السن فتزوج الوزير عبد الله بن محمد الحضرمي أمه وغلب عليه، وهو الذي تزوج أيضا هذه السلطانة خديجة بعد وفاة زوجها الوزير جمال الدين، كما سنذكره ، فلما بلغ شهاب الدين مبلغ الرجال أخرج ربيبه الوزير عبد الله ونفاه إلى جزائر السويد، واستقل بالملك واستوزر أحد مواليه ويسمى علي كلكي ثم عزله بعد ثلاثة أعوام ونفاه إلى السويد ، وكان يذكر عن السلطان شهاب الدين المذكور أنه يختلف إلى حرم أهل دولته وخواصه بالليل! فخلعوه لذلك ونفوه إلى اقليم هلدتني وبعثوا من قتله بها، ولم يكن بقى في بيت الملك إلا أخواته خديجة الكبرى

Among their wonders is that their ruler is a woman, Khadīja, daughter of Sultan Jalāl al-Dīn ʿUmar, son of Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Ṣāliḥ al-Banjālī. The kingship belonged to her grandfather and then to her father. When her father died, her brother Shihāb al-Dīn became ruler while still young, and the vizier ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Ḥaḍramī married his mother and dominated him. It was he who also married this sultana Khadīja after the death of her husband, the vizier Jamāl al-Dīn, as we shall relate. When Shihāb al-Dīn reached manhood, he expelled his stepfather the vizier ʿAbd Allāh and exiled him to the islands of al-Suwayd. He took sole control of the kingship and appointed as vizier one of his freedmen named ʿAlī Kalakī, then dismissed him after three years and exiled him to al-Suwayd. It was said of this Sultan Shihāb al-Dīn that he used to visit the wives of his officers of state and his intimates by night! So they deposed him for this and exiled him to the province of Haladutnī, and sent someone who killed him there. No one remained of the royal house except his sisters, Khadīja the eldest,