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Khawand Toghay (14th-century), was a slave wife of Al-Nasir Mohammad Ibn Qala'un. She was his slave before he freed her and married her. She was known for having a kind heart, and attending to all her slaves' needs after she was freed. She gave birth to Prince Anook. She was noted as an influential woman in court decisions. References
Khawand Toghay Era conocida por tener un corazón bondadoso y atender todas las necesidades de sus esclavos después de ser liberada. Ella dio a luz al Príncipe Anook .
- Al-Nasir Muhammad and Mamluk Reform
- Crafting Al-Nasir Muhammad’s Candlestick Base
- Communicating Power Through Text and Image
- Power Dynamics and Gifting
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al-Nasir Muhammad, like many other rulers, used art as a tool to convey and solidify his position as sultan. This was especially important, as the early years of his rule were particularly fragile. He first ascended the throne at the young age of 9; however, because of his age, he ruled in name only, and real authority lay in the hands of his high-...
al-Nasir Muhammad commissioned the most accomplished metalworkers from Baghdad, Damascus, Mosul, and Cairo to produce exquisite objects of the highest level. By the 14th century, these artisans—informed by metalworking traditions with roots in 12th-century Iran and Iraq—excelled at transforming brass with sophisticated silver and gold surface ornam...
The candlestick represents a substantial transformation in the decoration of metalwork, as well as the media, that occurred during the third reign of al-Nasir Muhammad (1310–41). Previously, artisans regularly incorporated into their works images of courtly life, including musicians, dancers, wine drinkers, and enthroned rulers, as well as astrolog...
This visual and textual language of royal power extended to the entire Mamluk court through gifts given to the amirs by the sultan as well as commissions made by the amirs themselves. Several inlaid brass objects inscribed with the titles of unnamed amirs survive, all including the words “in the service of al-Malik al-Nasir (al-Nasir Muhammad).” Th...
Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of the Architecture and its Culture (Cairo, 2007). Willem Flinterman and Jo Van Steenbergen, “‘Al-Nasir Muhammad and the Formation of the Qalawunid State,” in Pearls on a String: Art in the Age of the Great Islamic Empires, edited by A. Landau (the Walters Art Museum and University of Washingt...
Khawand Toghay (m. 1321, d. December 1348 – January 1349, buried in her own mausoleum in the Northern Cemetery, City of the Dead.) — was a Turkish slave-girl he bought from Tankiz al-Husami, his governor in Syria. She had a brother named Amir Aqbugha. She was his favourite wife.
Khawand Toghay (14th-century), was a slave wife of Al-Nasir Mohammad Ibn Qala'un.She was his slave before he freed her and married her. She was known for hav...
This spectacular brass candlestick bears the name of the sultan (king) al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun. al-Nasir Muhammad was a member of the Mamluk dynasty that ruled over key areas of West Asia and North Africa between 1250 and 1517, including the important sacred cities of Mecca and Medina.
Khawand Toghay (m. 1321, d. December 1348 – January 1349, buried in her own mausoleum in the Northern Cemetery, City of the Dead. ) — was a Turkish slave-girl he bought from Tankiz al-Husami, his governor in Syria. She had a brother named Amir Aqbugha. She was his favourite wife. Sayf al-Din Anuk (b. 8 April 1323, d. 31 August 1340)
