Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad by Ibn Al-Sāʿī

Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad

Ibn Al-Sāʿī

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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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