Sayyida Zumurrud Khatun

Sayyida Zumurrud Khatun (, died 1203) also known as Umm al-Nasir was the mother of Abbasid caliph al-Nasir.

Biography Zumurrud Khatun was one of Caliph al-Mustadi's concubines in the Abbasid harem. She was a Turkic, and was the mother of the future caliph al-Nasir.

By most accounts, Zumurrud Khatun is identified as a formerly-enslaved Turkic woman who became a prominent noblewoman during the later Abbasid Caliphate. She rose to this position through marriage to Caliph al-Mustadi.

Her legacy as patroness was due to her restoration of public infrastructure and for building educational and funerary buildings. For instance, she is in history for spending 300,000 dirhams to repair water supplies and cisterns during the pilgrimage.

Death Various chronicles describe Sayyida Zumurrud Khatun as "a very devout woman" who pleaded with her son to free the famous scholar Ibn al-Jawzi. Zumurrud was herself a follower of Hanbali school.

She died in December 1202–January 1203, or January–February 1203, and was buried in her own mausoleum in Sheikh Maarouf Cemetery.