Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad

(Part of the Library of Arabic Literature Series)

by Ibn al-Sai and Ibn al-S

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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 of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were 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 is one of the few surviving texts by the prolific Baghdadi scholar Ibn al-Sa'i, who chronicled...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1479866792

ISBN13:9781479866793

Release Date:September 2017

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"

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