Ardu

Ardu was a Tatar concubine of the Mamluk sultan al-Nasir Muhammad and mother of the future sultan al-Ashraf Kujuk, born in 1334. When another Tatar concubine, Kuda, died, Ardu raised her infant son, the future sultan al-Nasir Hasan.

After al-Nasir Muhammad's death in 1341 she later married Sultan al-Kamil Sha'ban. A rival wife accused her of sorcery under Sultan as-Salih Isma'il, and in 1345 her eleven-year-old son Kujuk was murdered in the ensuing intrigues.