Consorts of the Caliphs : : Women and the Court of Baghdad / / Ibn al-Sāʿī; ed. by Shawkat M. Toorawa.

Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Library of Arabic Literature ; 2
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