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The Slave Girls of Baghdad: The Qiyan in the Early Abbasid Era (Library of Middle East History)
F. Matthew Caswell
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| #3633531 in Books | Tauris Academic Studies | 2011-08-15 | 2011-09-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.93 x1.32 x5.78l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 304 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Slave Girls of Baghdad|By Jana Richardson|A qayna is a slave girl coveted for her beauty, valued for her talent, and a part of the long history of women enslaved by patriarchal society. This woman is in some ways a respected professional, an entertainer, and in other ways a short-lived phenomenon, a powerless pet. The complex lives of the qiyan are mired in contradiction. Fuad||'The merits of Caswell's study are several. He has taken the poetry of the women singers seriously, providing copious examples in accessible, often elegant translation. If, as he describes it, this material was not always 'high art' on a par with the best work
From the refined Geisha of the Imperial Court to the learned hetaerae of Ancient Greece, the captivating history of courtesans and slave girls transcends countless cultural boundaries and fields of academic study. The Slave Girls of Baghdad explores the origins, education and art of the ""qiyan"" -- indentured girls and women who entertained and entranced the caliphs and aristocrats who worked the labyrinths of power within ninth-century Baghdad and thro...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Slave Girls of Baghdad: The Qiyan in the Early Abbasid Era (Library of Middle East History) | F. Matthew Caswell. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
