Princesses Born to Concubines: A First Visit to the Women of the Abbasid Household in Late Medieval Cairo

This article presents a study of the women of the Abbasid household in 8th-/14th- and 9th-/15th-century Cairo. Following a discussion of the size and growth of the Abbasid family, the article juxtaposes a late fourteenth-century marriage document, which extolls the virtues of unions made with the ca...

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Main Author: Banister, Mustafa (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Hawwa
Year: 2022, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 396-430
Further subjects:B Mamluks
B Abbasids
B Egypt
B Cairo Sultanate
B Marriage
B Concubines
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