تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.86.1

13.86.1

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,