Forty Men and a Horse (The Forty)
The Forty: Razia makes the Abyssinian Jamal ud-Din Yaqut master of the stables, a post the Turkic slave-nobles think is theirs, and gives other outsiders iqtas. The nobles turn. The story that Yaqut lifted her onto her horse by the arms is Isami's, a century later; Ibn Battuta repeats the rumour. Minhaj records the favour and the jealousy, nothing more. The name the Forty, Chihalgani, is Barani's, also a century later.
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