Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad by Julia Bray, Ibn al-Sai, Marina Warner, The Editors of the Library of Arabic Literature, Shawkat M. Toorawa

Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad

Julia Bray, Ibn al-Sai, Marina Warner, The Editors of the Library of Arabic Literature, Shawkat M. Toorawa

272 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging reflective slow-paced

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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 cal...

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