Who was Shajar al-Durr? Where did she come from? How did this slave girl become the queen of the Muslims? How did this concubine become the wife of King al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub and the mother of his son Khalil? How did she become the queen of Egypt after the death of her husband and the assassination of Turan Shah? And how did she then marry Izz al-Din Aybak, the actual founder of the Bahri Mamluk state, or the actual partner in the establishment of the Bahri Mamluk state, Shajar al-Durr, the queen of the Muslims and the protector of the world and religion? Then how did this queen, who ruled for only three months minus a few days, abdicate the sultanate, handing over the reins of power to Izz al-Din Aybak, while retaining control over him, and then conspiring to assassinate him, so that his father Ali would arrest her and then hand her over to a slave girl who ordered her maids to beat the deposed queen to death with wooden clogs?