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Author: Vahan Cardashian Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781019447796 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Vahan Cardashian spent several years living in the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th century and became intimately familiar with the customs and practices of the imperial harem. In this unique memoir, Cardashian provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of the women who lived in the harem. He also offers a critical analysis of the politics and social structure of Ottoman society. This book is an important contribution to the study of Middle Eastern history and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Vahan Cardashian Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781019447796 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Vahan Cardashian spent several years living in the Ottoman Empire during the late 19th century and became intimately familiar with the customs and practices of the imperial harem. In this unique memoir, Cardashian provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of the women who lived in the harem. He also offers a critical analysis of the politics and social structure of Ottoman society. This book is an important contribution to the study of Middle Eastern history and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Vahan Cardashian Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780364371923 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 110
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Excerpt from Actual Life in the Turkish Harem This is the story of the woman of locks and bars - harem. Stripped Of its trammels and tassels Of sentimental and mawkish fairy tales and dramatic Arabian Night stories, the Harem is plainly one Of the fundamental prin ciples Of Mohammedanism, which permits a man to marry as many as four women at a time, under certain restrictive conditions; to keep them indoors, behind locks and bars, or under veil and shawl when out of doors, away from the gaze Of men other than their hus bands or immediate members Of the family, and to divorce them, according to the Koranic laws, until a man shall have married as many as seven women all told. He may also have other women in his household or elsewhere, without marrying them, provided that he has fulfilled his Obligations to those whom he has married. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Anastasia M. Ashman Publisher: Seal Press ISBN: 9781580051552 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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An anthology of personal writings in which twenty-nine women who have lived in Turkey over the last forty years chronicle their experiences and share their impressions of the country.
Author: Leslie Peirce Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465093094 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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The "fascinating . . . lively" story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire (New York Times). In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian homeland and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Istanbul. Suleyman became besotted with her and foreswore all other concubines. Then, in an unprecedented step, he freed her and married her. The bold and canny Roxelana soon became a shrewd diplomat and philanthropist, who helped Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women, from Isabella of Hungary to Catherine de Medici, increasingly held the reins of power. Until now Roxelana has been seen as a seductress who brought ruin to the empire, but in Empress of the East, Peirce reveals the true history of an elusive figure who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.
Author: Leslie P. Peirce Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195086775 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 404
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The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, Leslie Peirce demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty--royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. The Imperial Harem argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's control for social control of the sexually active.
Author: Marilyn Booth Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822348691 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 425
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An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies.
Author: Vahan Cardashian
Author: Vahan Cardashian
Author: Vahan Cardashian
Author: Vahan Cardashian
Author: Vahan Cardashian
Author: Anastasia M. Ashman
Author: Jane Hathaway
Author: Leslie Peirce
Author: Leslie P. Peirce
Author: Betül İpşirli Argit
Author: Marilyn Booth