Consorts of the Caliphs. Ibn al-Sa'i

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       38. Khātūn

       39. Zubaydah

       Notes

      The Abbasid Caliphs

      The Early Saljūqs

      Chronology of Women Featured in Consorts of the Caliphs

      Glossary of Names

      Glossary of Places

      Glossary of Realia

      Bibliography

      Further Reading

      Index of Qurʾanic Verses

      Index of Verses

      About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute

      About this E-book

      About the Editor and Translators

      Library of Arabic Literature

       Editorial Board

      General Editor

      Philip F. Kennedy, New York University

      Executive Editors

      James E. Montgomery, University of Cambridge

      Shawkat M. Toorawa, Cornell University

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      Julia Bray, University of Oxford

      Michael Cooperson, University of California, Los Angeles

      Joseph E. Lowry, University of Pennsylvania

      Tahera Qutbuddin, University of Chicago

      Devin J. Stewart, Emory University

      Managing Editor

      Chip Rossetti

      Digital Production Manager

      Stuart Brown

      Assistant Editor

      Gemma Juan-Simó

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      Abbreviations

ad	anno Domini = Gregorian (Christian) year
ah	anno Hegirae = Hijrah (Muslim) year
art.	article
Ar.	Arabic
c.	century
ca.	circa = about, approximately
cf.	confer = compare
d.	died
ed.	editor, edition, edited by
EI2	Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second edition
EI3	Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three [Third edition]
EIran	Encyclopaedia Iranica
esp.	especially
f., ff.	folio, folios
fl.	flourished
lit.	literally
MS	manuscript
n.	note
n.d.	no date
n.p.	no place
no.	number
p., pp.	page, pages
pl.	plural
Q	Qurʾan
r.	ruled
vol., vols.	volume, volumes

      Foreword

“Muted” was the epithet used to describe female subjects by the anthropologists Edwin and Shirley Ardener in an influential critique of their discipline and its methods, published in 1975; they identified a systemic problem, that fieldworkers consistently sought out the men’s story, set down what they heard, and attended above all to male activities; in most cases, the researchers had little access to women, but they also did not try to listen to them or elicit their stories.¹ Consequently, women disappeared from the record, their voices were not registered, and the whole picture suffered from distortion.

      The Ardeners provided a polemical but persuasive angle of view on a widespread discomfort with cultural assumptions, and their work spurred a new generation of readers and researchers to begin listening in to “muted groups” of individuals from the past, those muffled female participants whose “labour created our world” (to borrow Angela Carter’s phrase about storytellers, ballad-singers, and other cultural keepers of memory). The impulse was part of the broadly feminist program of those years, but it grew larger than that political movement, as scholars in history, literature, social studies, and indeed almost every area of inquiry pursued the new archaeology, unearthing remarkable new material about women’s СКАЧАТЬ