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Shajar al-Durr was purchased as a bondmaid by as-Salih Ayyub.

in the Levant before he became a Sultan and accompanied him with his Mamluk Baibars ( not Baibars who became a Sultan ) at Al Karak during his detention in 1239.

Later when he became a Sultan in 1240 she went with him to Egypt and delivered their son Khalil who was called al-Malik al-Mansour.

She was of Turkic origin, and was described by the historians as a beautiful, pious and intelligent woman.