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Consorts Of the Caliphs: Women and the Court Of Baghdad (Translation)
[Paperback - 2017]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: New York University Press | ISBN: 9781479866793 | Pages: 0
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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 is one of the few surviving texts by Ibn al-Saʿi (d. 674 H/1276 AD). Ibn al-Saʿi was a prolific Baghdadi scholar who chronicled the academic and political elites of his city, and whose career straddled the final years of the Abbasid dynasty and the period following the cataclysmic Mongol invasion of 656 H/1258 AD.

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