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The harem of the caliphs of the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) in Baghdad was composed of his mother, wives, slave concubines, female relatives and slave servants (women and eunuchs), occupying a secluded portion of the Abbasid household. This institution played an important social function within the Abbasid court and was that part were the ...
The harem of the Mamluk sultans was housed in the Cairo Citadel al-Hawsh in the capital of Cairo (1250–1517). The Mamluk sultanate built upon the established model of the Abbasid harem, as did its predecessor the Fatimid harem. The mother of the sultan was the highest ranked woman of the harem.
The Caliphal harem became a role model for other rich men to emulate in smaller scale, and also served as a role model for the royal harems of the local dynasties who emerged from the Abbasid Caliphate, such as the Fatimid harem of the Fatimid dynasty of Egypt, as well as the harem of the Umayyad state of Córdoba of al-Andalus.
The harem system first became fully institutionalized in the Islamic World under the Abbasid caliphate, [14] when the Abbasid harem was established. [15] At this point, however, Muslim women had not yet been fully secluded from society in a harem.
The harem could contain thousands of slave concubines; the harem of Abd al-Rahman I consisted of 6,300 women. [105] The saqaliba concubines were appreciated for their light skin. [ 106 ] The concubines ( jawaris ) were educated in accomplishments to make them attractive and useful for their master, and many became known and respected for their ...
Zaydan the qahramana (Arabic: زيدان القهرمانة 10th-century) was a courtier of the Abbasid harem during the reign of caliph al-Muqtadir (r. 908–932). She was taken as a slave and placed in the Abbasid harem, where she was given the office of qahramana (stewardess). The qahramana's acted as the intermediaries of the women of the ...
Royal harems could employ a very large number of jawaris, who acted as the entertainers of the royal harem and who were not necessarily synonymous with the concubines of the ruler. [3] The Abbasid harem had thousands of jawari as well as concubines who were not always the same, and this was adopted by the harems of many other Islamic rulers ...
Jijak became an important and influential Umm walad of the Abbasid harem because of her merit as the mother of elder and nominated heir of al-Mu'tadid. [citation needed] She died around 900s, before or shortly after her son's ascension to the Caliphate. After her death her rival Shaghab took attention in the Harem. Even though Jijak was ...