Historical Reality:Malik Yaqut

Malik Yaqut was a favored Abyssinian Slave of Raziye Sultan. Malik Yaqut was appointed Amir-i-Akhur meant superintendent of stables, the position which so far was given to high turkish noble only. This created jealousy among turkish nobles.This post, which implied control over the royal stables, including elephants and hroses, was considered to be a strategic post, and one which implied that the holder was close to the sovereign. Hence, it was resented by the Turkish nobles who wanted to monopolize all the important offices in the state. There is no evidence that the appointment of Malik Yaqut was a part of Razia's policy to build a bloc of non-Turkish nobles in order to off-set the power of the Turkish nobles. Nor is there any reason to believe that there was any personal intimacy between Raziye and Malik Yakut. Even the charge that he had to life Razia by the arm-pits to her horse is a later concoction because it is not mentioned by any contemporary historian. Also, whenever Razia went out in public, she rode an elephant, not a horse.