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Consorts of the Caliphs : : Women and the Court of Baghdad / / Ibn al-Sāʿī.

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Accounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation ofanecdotes about thirty-eight women who were consorts to those in power, most ofthem concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphsand su...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
al-Sāʿī, Ibn,
MitwirkendeR:
Bray, Julia,
Literature, The Editors of the Library of Arabic,
Toorawa, Shawkat M.,
Warner, Marina,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Library of Arabic Literature ; 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Letter from the General Editor
  • About this Paperback
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Maps
  • Note on the Translation
  • Notes to the Front Matter
  • Consorts of the Caliphs
  • 1. Ḥammādah bint ʿĪsā
  • 2. Ghādir
  • 3. ʿInān, daughter of ʿAbd Allāh
  • 4. Ghaḍīḍ
  • 5. Haylānah
  • 6. ʿArīb al-Maʾmūniyyah
  • 7. Bidʿah al-Kabīrah
  • 8. Būrān
  • 9. Muʾnisah al-Maʾmūniyyah
  • 10. Qurrat al-ʿAyn
  • 11. Farīdah
  • 12. Isḥāq al-Andalusiyyah
  • 13. Faḍl al-Shāʿirah al-Yamāmiyyah
  • 14. Bunān
  • 15. Maḥbūbah
  • 16. Nāshib al-Mutawakkiliyyah
  • 17. Fāṭimah
  • 18. Farīdah
  • 19. Nabt
  • 20. Khallāfah
  • 21. Ḍirār
  • 22. Qaṭr al-Nadā
  • 23. Khamrah
  • 24. ʿIṣmah Khātūn
  • 25. Māh-i Mulk
  • 26. Khātūn
  • 27. Banafshā al-Rūmiyyah
  • 28. Sharaf Khātūn al-Turkiyyah
  • 29. Saljūqī Khātūn
  • 30. Shāhān
  • 31. Dawlah
  • 32. Ḥayāt Khātūn
  • 33. Bāb Jawhar
  • 34. Qabīḥah
  • 35. Sitt al-Nisāʾ
  • 36. Sarīrah al-Rāʾiqiyyah
  • 37. Khātūn al-Safariyyah
  • 38. Khātūn
  • 39. Zubaydah
  • Notes
  • The Abbasid Caliphs
  • The Early Saljūqs
  • Chronology of Women Featured in Consorts of the Caliphs
  • Glossary of Names
  • Glossary of Places
  • Glossary of Realia
  • Bibliography
  • Further Reading
  • Index
  • About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
  • About the Translators
  • The Library of Arabic Literature

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