Two Queens Of Baghdad
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At the glittering heart of the Abbasid Caliphate, two extraordinary women wielded power that defied the constraints of their age — Two Queens of Baghdad chronicles the remarkable lives of Khayzuran and Zubaydah, mother and wife respectively of the legendary Caliph Harun al-Rashid, whose court inspired the tales of One Thousand and One Nights. Nabia Abbott draws on classical Arabic sources to reconstruct these women's political influence, fierce ambitions, and cultural patronage in ninth-century Baghdad, presenting a vivid and rigorously researched portrait of the Islamic Golden Age from a perspective rarely afforded to Western readers. A pioneering work of scholarship by one of the first women to hold a professorship at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, this biography stands as a landmark in both Islamic history and gender studies. Abbott's prose is precise yet evocative, illustrating how these queens navigated a patriarchal court with intelligence and resolve, shaping the destiny of an empire. For anyone captivated by the intersection of women, power, and medieval Islamic civilisation, this volume poses a tantalising question: how much of history's grandeur was quietly engineered by those history chose to overlook?
Author: Nabia Abbott
Format: Paperback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the glittering heart of the Abbasid Caliphate, two extraordinary women wielded power that defied the constraints of their age — Two Queens of Baghdad chronicles the remarkable lives of Khayzuran and Zubaydah, mother and wife respectively of the legendary Caliph Harun al-Rashid, whose court inspired the tales of One Thousand and One Nights. Nabia Abbott draws on classical Arabic sources to reconstruct these women's political influence, fierce ambitions, and cultural patronage in ninth-century Baghdad, presenting a vivid and rigorously researched portrait of the Islamic Golden Age from a perspective rarely afforded to Western readers. A pioneering work of scholarship by one of the first women to hold a professorship at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, this biography stands as a landmark in both Islamic history and gender studies. Abbott's prose is precise yet evocative, illustrating how these queens navigated a patriarchal court with intelligence and resolve, shaping the destiny of an empire. For anyone captivated by the intersection of women, power, and medieval Islamic civilisation, this volume poses a tantalising question: how much of history's grandeur was quietly engineered by those history chose to overlook?