{"product_id":"consorts-of-the-caliphs-women-and-the-court-of-baghdad-paperback","title":"Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIbn Al-Sāʿī\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eShawkat M. Toorawa\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eThe Editors of the Library o Literature\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccounts of remarkable women at the world's most powerful court\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eConsorts of the Caliphs \u003c\/i\u003eis 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\/1258. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this work, Ibn al-Sa'i is keen to forge a connection between the munificent wives of his time and the storied\u003cbr\u003elovers 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\u003cbr\u003ebested 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInformed by the author's own sources, his insider knowledge, and well-known literary materials, these singular\u003cbr\u003ebiographical 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An English-only edition.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIbn al-Sāʿī (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIbn al-Sāʿī \u003c\/b\u003e(d. 674\/1276) was a historian, law librarian, and prolific author from Baghdad. His considerable scholarly output included treatises on hadith, literary commentaries, histories of the caliphs, and biographical collections, though little has survived. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarina Warner (Foreword by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarina Warner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eDBE\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London; a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her book \u003ci\u003eStranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, as well as the 2013 Sheikh Zayed Book Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Bray (Introducer) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJulia Bray\u003c\/b\u003e became the Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St. John's College in 2012, having previously taught at the universities of Manchester, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Paris 8-Vincennes--Saint-Denis. She writes on medieval to early modern Arabic literature, life-writing, and social history. She has contributed to the \u003ci\u003eNew Cambridge History of Islam \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), to \u003ci\u003eEssays in Arabic Literary Biography 1350-1850\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), and to cross-cultural studies such as \u003ci\u003eApproaches to the Byzantine Family\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and edited\u003ci\u003e Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam\u003c\/i\u003e (2006). With Wen-chin Ouyang, she edits the monograph series Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. With Helen Blatherwick, she is editing a special issue of the journal \u003ci\u003eCultural History\u003c\/i\u003e on the history of emotions in Arabic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShawkat M. Toorawa (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eShawkat M. Toorawa \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Arabic literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages \u0026amp; Civilizations at Yale University, where he teaches classical Arabic, the Arabic humanities, and literatures of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47616262242557,"sku":"9781479866793","price":26.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/U3NBV3VoVjBxcXVBTXFKa1NKQXpCQT09.webp?v=1780199705","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/consorts-of-the-caliphs-women-and-the-court-of-baghdad-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}