[PDF.87wt] The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem

The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem

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 | #977667 in Books |  University of Texas Press |  2010-01-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 324 pages

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||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Hearing the voices of the imperial Ottoman harem|By Yelda Basar Moers|There is nothing as authentic or enticing as reading the first hand accounts of imperial women who lived in the harem of the Ottoman Empire. So much of what women were like at that time is gleaned from memoirs written by European women and men, as the Ottomans were noteworthy in their recordkeeping, but negl|About the Author|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. He lives in Oakland, California.

In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. But for the women and children who actually inhabited this realm of the imperial palace, the reality was vastly different. In this collection of translated memoirs, three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem in Istanbul between 1876 and 1924 offer a fascinating glimpse "behind the veil" into the lives of Muslim palace ...

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