Who was Shajar al-Durr?

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Shajar al-Durr (d. 1257) was the queen of Egypt. After the killing of Turanshah she ruled for eighty days at the head of the Mamluk state, and she married the Mamluk Aybak, her former slave. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas