{"product_id":"consorts-of-the-caliphs-women-and-the-court-of-baghdad-9781479866793","title":"Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-14052756\"\u003eIbn Al-Sāʿī\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479866793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479866792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS026000\"\u003eMiddle East | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LCO\"\u003eLiterary Collections\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LCO012000\"\u003eMiddle Eastern\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her most recent book, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights, 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\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","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42663984759021,"sku":"9781479866793","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_5bf7037b-7510-4090-a883-1d7bf0ce6b59.jpg?v=1649399600","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/consorts-of-the-caliphs-women-and-the-court-of-baghdad-9781479866793","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}