Description
Based on original and previously unexamined sources, this book provides a critical and systematic analysis of the role of women, mothers, wives, eunuchs, concubines, qahramans and atabegs in the dynamics and manipulation of medieval Islamic politics. Spanning over 600 years, Taef El-Azhari explores gender and sexual politics and power: from the time of the Prophet Muhammad through the Umayyad and Abbasid periods to the Mamluks in the 15th century, and from Iran and Central Asia to North Africa and Spain.
Author: Taef El-Azhari
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 05/26/2021
Pages: 472
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.95d
ISBN13: 9781474483865
ISBN10: 1474483860
BISAC Categories:
- History | Middle East | General
- History | Europe | Medieval
- Religion | Islam | History
About the Author
Taef El-Azhari is Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History at the University of Helwan, Egypt. He received his doctorate in Middle Eastern history from the University of Manchester. His interests, both in research and teaching, focus principally on Turkmen-Kurdish social-political history and the Crusades. His most recent books include 'Zengi and the Muslim Response to the Crusades' and 'The Saljuqs of Syria during the Crusades'.