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Sex and Gender in the Abbasid Caliphate

Updated: Mar 4, 2023


 

Caliphal Harems, Household Harems: Baghdad in the Fourth Century of the Islamic Era

Book El-Chiekh, Nadia Maria

 

Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History

Book Gordon, Matthew and Kathryn Hain editors

 

Court Women in the Second Abbasid Era (232-334 AH/847-945 AD) Historical Statistical Study Khaji, Abdalzahra Jasim Shaboot

pdf

 

Revisiting the Abbasid Harems El-Chiekh, Nadia Maria

Project Muse

 

Servants at the Gate: Eunuchs at the Court of Al-Muqtadir El-Chiekh, Naida Maria

 

"SLAVE WOMEN AND FREE MEN: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND CULTURE IN EARLY ABBASID TIMES" Moukheiber, Karen Raif

pdf

 

The Epistle on Singing Girls by Jahiz Beeston, AFL

pdf

 

"The Qahramâna in the Abbasid Court: Position and Functions" El-Cihekh, Nadia Maria

 

Women before the Qāḍī under the Abbasids Tillier, Mathieu

 

Women in the Medieval Islamic World Hambly, Gavin RG

Book

 

Cover image is from the Maqamat of al-Hariri, by Yahyâ ibn Mahmûd al-Wâsiti.

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