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  2. History of concubinage in the Muslim world - Wikipedia

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    Christian women who converted to Islam and then became politically assertive and tyrannical were regarded by Europeans as traitors to the faith. [134] The Islamic Law formally prohibited prostitution. However, "Slave girls most probably were a part of the sex trade in the Ottoman Empire.

  3. Mandaeans - Wikipedia

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    The Sabian–Mandaean Mandi in Baghdad was built on the land donated by the government. [69] According to local sources, their population until 2003 was 75,000. [69] The 2003 American invasion of Iraq and the war that followed brought more troubles to Mandaeans, as the security situation deteriorated. [71]

  4. Sultanate of Women - Wikipedia

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    The Sultanate of Women (Ottoman Turkish: قادينلر سلطنتى, romanized: Kadınlar saltanatı) was a period when some consorts, mothers, sisters and grandmother of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire exerted extraordinary political influence.

  5. Mandi (Mandaeism) - Wikipedia

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    A contemporary-style mandi is located in Nasiriyah, Iraq. The town of Liṭlaṭa in Qal'at Saleh District, southern Iraq was also the site of a Mandaean mandi that the British scholar E. S. Drower often visited. [5] In Baghdad, the main mandi is called the Sabian Mandi of Baghdad. [6]

  6. Women's mosque - Wikipedia

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    Xiaotaoyuan Women's Mosque in Shanghai, China. A women-only mosque in Byblos, Lebanon.. Women's mosques exist around the world, with a particularly rich tradition in China. As Islam has principles of segregating the sexes at times, many places of worship provide a dedicated prayer space for women within the main building, but in a few countries, separate buildings were constructed.

  7. Women in Islam - Wikipedia

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    A fragment of Sūrat an-Nisā' – a chapter of Islam's sacred text entitled 'Women' – featuring the Persian, Arabic, and Kufic scripts. Islam views men and women as equal before God, and the Quran underlines that man and woman were "created of a single soul" (4:1, [15] 39:6 [16] and elsewhere). [17]

  8. Chelsea Islan - Wikipedia

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    Chelsea Islan was born in Queens, New York City, [1] She is the only child in her family to an Indonesian mother and an American father, Islan moved to Jakarta to start elementary school and stay until she finished high school at the Mentari Intercultural School. [2]

  9. Bathing - Wikipedia

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    In the Indonesian language, mandi is the verb for this process; bak mandi is the large container, and kamar mandi is the place in which this is done. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] Travel guides often use the word mandi on its own or in various ways such as for the large container and for the process of bathing.