Consorts of the Caliphs
- Women and the Court of Baghdad
indgår i Library of Arabic Literature serien
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- Paperback
- Sideantal:
- 176
- Udgivet:
- 5. September 2017
- Størrelse:
- 209x141x16 mm.
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- 290 g.
- 8-11 hverdage.
- 3. Oktober 2024
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Beskrivelse af Consorts of the Caliphs
Accounts of remarkable women at the world''s most powerful court
Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of
anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were consorts to those in power, most of
them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs
and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving
texts by the prolific Baghdadi scholar Ibn al-Sa''i,
who chronicled the academic and political elites of his city in the final years
of the Abbasid dynasty and the period following the cataclysmic Mongol invasion
of 656 H/1258 AD.
In this work, Ibn al-Sa''i is keen to
forge a connection between the munificent wives of his time and the storied
lovers of the so-called golden age of Baghdad. Thus, from the earlier period,
we find Harun al-Rashid pining for his brother’s beautiful slave, Ghadir, and
the artistry of such musical and literary celebrities as Arib and Fadl, who
bested the male poets and singers of their day. From times closer to Ibn al-Sa?i’s own, we
meet women such as Banafsha, who endowed law colleges, had bridges built, and
provisioned pilgrims bound for Mecca; slave women whose funeral services were
led by caliphs; and noble Saljuq princesses from Afghanistan.
Informed by the author’s own sources, his
insider knowledge, and well-known literary materials, these singular
biographical sketches bring the belletristic culture of the Baghdad court to life,
particularly in the personal narratives and poetry of culture heroines
otherwise lost to history.
Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of
anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were consorts to those in power, most of
them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs
and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving
texts by the prolific Baghdadi scholar Ibn al-Sa''i,
who chronicled the academic and political elites of his city in the final years
of the Abbasid dynasty and the period following the cataclysmic Mongol invasion
of 656 H/1258 AD.
In this work, Ibn al-Sa''i is keen to
forge a connection between the munificent wives of his time and the storied
lovers of the so-called golden age of Baghdad. Thus, from the earlier period,
we find Harun al-Rashid pining for his brother’s beautiful slave, Ghadir, and
the artistry of such musical and literary celebrities as Arib and Fadl, who
bested the male poets and singers of their day. From times closer to Ibn al-Sa?i’s own, we
meet women such as Banafsha, who endowed law colleges, had bridges built, and
provisioned pilgrims bound for Mecca; slave women whose funeral services were
led by caliphs; and noble Saljuq princesses from Afghanistan.
Informed by the author’s own sources, his
insider knowledge, and well-known literary materials, these singular
biographical sketches bring the belletristic culture of the Baghdad court to life,
particularly in the personal narratives and poetry of culture heroines
otherwise lost to history.
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