出版社：Middle East Documentation Center (MEDOC), University of Chicago
摘要：During the Ottoman period in Egypt a legend was created which attributed the origin of the mah˝mal tradition to Shajarat al-Durr. As women's topics are receiving increasing attention in scholarly research these days, the persona of Shajarat al-Durr ought to be revisited. More particularly, the circumstances that led to the association of the Egyptian pilgrimage with a female royal person deserve our interest. For this purpose, references to the earlier pilgrimage of the Abbasid queen Zubaydah and to the pilgrimage performed by the elite women of the Mamluk court will be examined and compared in the following pages in order to decode the legend about Shajarat al-Durr
