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Genre/Form: | Erlebnisbericht Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Concubine, the princess, and the teacher. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008 (OCoLC)608690739 |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Douglas Scott Brookes |
ISBN: | 9780292718425 029271842X 9780292721494 0292721498 |
OCLC Number: | 216941060 |
Description: | 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- The concubine Filizten -- The princess Ayşe -- The teacher Safiye -- Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | translated and edited by Douglas Scott Brookes. |
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Abstract:
In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. This book offers a glimpse into the lives of Muslim palace women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explains the social structure of the nineteenth-century Ottoman palace harem.
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