Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad

by Ibn al-Sai and Ibn al-S

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479866792
• ISBN13: 9781479866793
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"