Khawand Toghay

Khawand Toghay was the favourite wife of the Mamluk sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun, who reigned from 1293 to 1341. A Turkish slave girl bought by the sultan's governor in Syria, she entered the Cairo Citadel as his concubine; he freed her and married her in 1321.

After her manumission she was remembered for her kind heart and for personally attending to the needs of her own slaves. She bore the sultan a son, Prince Anuk, who died in 1340. She outlived her husband by some seven years and was buried in her own mausoleum in Cairo's Northern Cemetery.