Sitt Ashlun Khatun
Sitt Ashlun Khatun was a Mongol noblewoman, daughter of the Ilkhanate commander Shaktay ibn Qarajin in Mamluk service. In 1282 she married the Mamluk sultan Qalawun, and in 1285 bore a son, Muhammad, the future sultan al-Nasir Muhammad. Ashlun raised him in Mongol fashion.
He was made sultan in 1293 after his half-brother al-Ashraf Khalil was murdered, and when Kitbugha deposed him in 1294 Ashlun went with her son into confinement at al-Karak, returning to Cairo with him when he was restored in 1299.