The Murder of Egypt's Forgotten Queen - Shajar al-Durr & Om Ali

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[vinnipolicastro]

French king kicks off this whole story with a crusade and now the modern recipe is made with croissants 🤔

[TastingHistory]

Note that the baking temperature for the bread is 475 even though it says 400 on screen.

[Zoon-li-olih]

I'm super happy to see some medieval egyptian history! So much of our pop cultural understanding of egyptian history is just pyramids and pharaos and hieroglyphs, and just sorta pretends that Egypt stopped existing after the death of Cleopatra.

[gz]

"Take out and serve - God Willing."
In the Xth century, the line between "ominous" and "pietous" was very thin, it seems.

[hussledupgamejam]

rumor has it if you chant “hardtack clack” in the mirror three times at 3 am you’ll hear max click behind you 👀

[gtpower]

egyptian here and its such a treat (much like the food in these videos) to watch you cover our pretty vast history and just as vast cuisine! ❤️🇪🇬

[adamradford]

The smile when he says "murder" has me cracking up. The way historians get so excited over murder is adorable. Usually.

[Oktopia]

Your dedication to language and proper pronunciation of words is simply amazing. I greatly appreciate it.

[MrShadows-vher]

I don't often comment, but I thought I'd let you know that I always look forward to your videos Max. My best friend Bentley passed on the way to the vet yesterday and I've been re-watching your videos to try and feel a bit better. All the best-

[AhmedEtman]

As an Egyptian, I'm very pleased with this episode. You've done great work with both the historical story and the recipe. My minor two remarks would be:
1- At 8:19 you said that the French army had taken control of many of the cities in the Nile Delta and was moving to Egypt. Well, Mansoura and the Nile Delta are already part of Egypt so the correct phrase would be that they were heading to Cairo. Interestingly enough, for hundreds of years most rural Egyptians did refer to the Capital Cairo as "Egypt" and that may have been the name used in the source you were reading from.
2- The name of the Sultana means "Tree of pearl" and in Arabic, one tree is Shajara and the plural; trees; is Shajar. So the first part of her name would be Shajara not Shajar, and because that word ends with a vowel and the next part; al-Durr; also start with a vowel, a silent "t" that exists in the spelling of the Arabic word Shajara would now be pronounced making her name pronounced "Shajarat-al-Durr"
Overall you are doing an excellent job and I really enjoy your content and appreciate the work and effort you put in it.

[garlicgalore]

My cooking often gets served "God willing" just like the ancient Egyptians cookbook says

[DylanBartholomewJPepe]

Literally just sat down with my food thinking about what to watch. Incredible timing.

[jokodihaynes]

"But the thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies"-Lawkeeper Equity Mlp Ace Attorney EOJ

[ShanRenxin]

"The new Mongol franchise" sent me!
intrigue never tasted so good.

[timmccarthy]

I'm glad to see modern Egypt get its shine. Too often, what we westerners learn about Egypt stops after "ancient."

[chelseashurmantine]

Through history, especially in Egypt, woman are given temporary power because the other options are usually warmongers or tyrants. The woman in charge (usually relative of dead prior ruler) usually carries the civilization through an especially tumultuous period, keeping temporary peace and letting the tyrants kill each other, or a new calmer ruler to shine through, and then she’s overthrown and things calm to the regular drama as it was before she was in charge.

[janeyrevanescence]

To Maximus Millerus Hardtackus (clack clack) from a fan, Greetings!

I want to issue a challenge to you for your Halloween episode this year. Your choice as to which:

A dish that might’ve been served at the villa on Lake Geneva Lord Byron rented during the summer of 1816 where a teenaged Mary Shelley was inspired to write the Gothic Horror novel Frankenstein.

Or,

A dish that might’ve been served at one of the pubs in Whitechapel when Jack the Ripper was prowling the streets.

I can’t wait to see what you come up with!

[lovelydreamingtime]

8:40 “She just pretended like he hadn’t died” ah just like Umineko

[jackdaw]

I’m severely allergic to absolutely everything in this murder-celebrating dessert. Pretty fitting, honestly

[StoneMidori]

The "God Willing" at the end of the recipe in the Kitab al-Tabikh really shows the cooking/baking process as a universal experience across humanity.