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Unveiling The Harem Elite Women and the Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth-Century Cairo

Name: Unveiling The Harem
Author: Mary Ann Fay

Auteur: Mary Ann Fay

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Mary Ann Fay

Engels
Hardcover
9780815632931
30 augustus 2012
331 pagina's

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A history of elite women who were concubines and wives of powerful slave-soldiers, known as Mamluks, who dominated Egypt both politically and militarily in the eighteenth century.

There is a long history in the West of representing Middle Eastern women as uniformly oppressed by Islam, by Islamic law, and by men. Stereotypical views of Middle Eastern women today maintain that they are without legal rights, do not attend universities or have jobs outside their homes, and are not full citizens of their countries because they cannot vote or hold public office. Similar misinformation circulated in the eighteenth century when European male travellers to Egypt, documenting their observations, depicted harem women as sexual objects, deprived of autonomy, and held captive by their husbands. Fay’s Unveiling the Harem offers a persuasive corrective to this distorted view of Middle Eastern women.

Instead of the odalisque of nineteenth-century painting and the fevered imaginings of European travellers, historical research reveals that elite women in powerful, wealthy households exercised their rights under Islamic law, property rights in particular, to become owners of lucrative real estate in Cairo as well as influential members of their families and the wider society. One such woman, Sitt Nafisa, who was literate in several languages, commissioned a public water fountain and a Qur’anic school that still stands today. She played a pivotal role as the intermediary between French officials and her husband, who was leading the revolt against the French from Upper Egypt. Based on documents from various archives in Cairo, including records of women’s property ownership, repeated visits to eighteenth-century palaces and their family quarters, and textual reconstruction's of the elite residential neighbourhoods of the city, Unveiling the Harem presents a lucid and historically grounded portrait of Egyptian women, stripped of the powerless victim narrative that is still with us today.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 augustus 2012
Aantal pagina's: 331
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Mary Ann Fay
Hoofduitgeverij: Syracuse University Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 165 mm
Product hoogte: 32 mm
Product lengte: 235 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 163 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 229 mm
Verpakking lengte: 234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 644 g

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EAN: 9780815632931

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geschiedenis

Sociale groepen

Genderstudies

Vrouwen & Meisjes

Periodes

Nieuwe tijd (1500-1800)

Regio's & Landen

Afrika

Boeken
Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Land: Egypte
Periode: ca. 1500-1800

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