The slave girls of Baghdad: the Qiyān in the early Abbasid era
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1. Verfasser: Caswell, Fuad Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London I.B. Tauris 2011
Schriftenreihe:Library of Middle East history v. 28
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Beschreibung:The history of courtesans and slave girls in the medieval Arab world transcends traditional boundaries of study and opens up new fields of sociological and cultural enquiry. In the process it offers a remarkably rich source of historical and cultural information on medieval Islam. 'The Slave Girls of Baghdad' explores the origins, education and art of the 'qiyan' - indentured girls and women who entertained and entranced the caliphs and aristocrats who worked the labyinths of power throughout the Abbasid Empire. In a detailed analysis of Islamic law, historical sources and poetry, F. Matthew C. ..
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317) and index
The social scene -- Imāʼ shawāʻir and qiyān -- Four slave-women poets : ʻInān, Faḍl, ʻArīb, Sakan -- Some other slave-girl poets : short biographical notes -- Al-Imāʼ al-shawāʻir as eulogists -- Al-Imāʼ al-shawāʻir as mourners -- Al-Imāʼ al-shawāʻir as satirists and lampoonists -- Notable free women -- Amatory poetry -- Singing -- The singing slave girls -- Decline and fall -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: The Abbasid caliphs and their accession dates -- Appendix II: Non-Arab mothers of Abbasid caliphs -- Appendix III: Some 3rd/9th-century jawārī : poets, singers, composers -- Appendix IV: Some qiyān trade slogans
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 317 Seiten)
ISBN:0857720082
9780755698325
1299639674
184885577X
9780857720085
9781299639676
9781848855779
DOI:10.5040/9780755698325

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