Consorts of the Caliphs : : Women and the Court of Baghdad /

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

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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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VerfasserIn:
al-Sāʿī, Ibn,
MitwirkendeR:
Bray, Julia,
Literature, The Editors of the Library of Arabic,
Toorawa, Shawkat M.,
Warner, Marina,
HerausgeberIn:
Toorawa, Shawkat M.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Library of Arabic Literature ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Maps
  • Note on the Edition
  • 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 of Qurʾanic Verses
  • Index of Arabic Verses
  • Index
  • About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute
  • About the Typefaces
  • About the Editor and Translators

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