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حَياة خاتون

جارية الإمام الظاهر بأمر الله رضي الله عنه

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Ḥayāt Khātūn

“Lady Life”

Slave of the caliph al-Ẓāhir—may God be pleased with him

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كانت جارية تركيّة الجنس حظيّة عنده مقرّبة إليه أمّ ولد له عتقت بموته وصارت حرّة. توفّيت يوم الجمعة سادس صفر من سنة تسع وثلاثين^١ وستّمائة وصُلّي عليها في صحن السلام وأخرجت من باب البشرى وحملت إلى تربة الإمام المستضيء بأمر الله فدفنت هناك.

١ م: وثلاث، والتصويب من ج.

She was a slave of Turkic origin, a favored and trusted concubine, and the mother of one of his sons. She was manumitted upon his death and became a free woman.

She died on Friday the sixth of Safar in the year 639 [August 16, 1241], and funeral prayers were held for her in the Court of Peace. Her body was borne through the Bushrā Gate to the mausoleum of the caliph al-Mustaḍīʾ and buried there.