The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem
Autor Douglas Scott Brookesen Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2008
The memoirists are Filizten, concubine to Sultan Murad V; Princess Ayse, daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid II; and Safiye, a schoolteacher who instructed the grandchildren and harem ladies of Sultan Mehmed V. Their recollections of the Ottoman harem reveal the rigid protocol and hierarchy that governed the lives of the imperial family and concubines, as well as the hundreds of slave women and black eunuchs in service to them. The memoirists show that, far from being a place of debauchery, the harem was a family home in which polite and refined behavior prevailed. Douglas Brookes explains the social structure of the nineteenth-century Ottoman palace harem in his introduction.
These three memoirs, written across a half century and by women of differing social classes, offer a fuller and richer portrait of the Ottoman imperial harem than has ever before been available in English.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292721494
ISBN-10: 0292721498
Pagini: 324
Ilustrații: 32 b&w, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292721498
Pagini: 324
Ilustrații: 32 b&w, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Douglas Scott Brookes holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and teaches courses in Ottoman and Middle Eastern history and culture.
Cuprins
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. The Concubine Filizten
- Part Two. The Princess Ayse
- Part Three. The Teacher Safiye
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary of Names
- Glossary of Terms and Places
- Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
Three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem between 1876 and 1924 describe the lifeways of the imperial family, dispelling Western stereotypes of harem debauchery.