Sayyida Zumurrud Khatun

[2] By most accounts, Zumurrud Khatun is identified as a formerly-enslaved Turkish woman who became a prominent noblewoman during the later Abbasid Caliphate.

[3] She is described as being a pious woman and an active patroness of architecture and public works.

[3] The Mosque and Mausoleum of Zumurrud Khatun were created at the commission of al-Nasir and his mother before her death in 1202.

[5] For instance, she is in history for spending 300,000 dirhams to repair water supplies and cisterns during the pilgrimage.

[6] Various chronicles describe Sayyida Zumurrud Khatun as "a very devout woman" who pleaded with her son to free the famous scholar Ibn al-Jawzi.