Eunuchs at the Service of Yemen’s Rasūlid Dynasty (626-858/1229-1454)
The significant roles played by eunuchs (castrated slaves) in Rasūlid Yemen have thus far escaped scholarly scrutiny. A systematic study of the historiographic and biographical writings of ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Khazrajī, chronicler of the Rasūlid court at the turn of the 9th/15th century, reveals that...
| Subtitles: | Thematic Focus: Rasūlid Entanglement in the Medieval Islamic World and Beyond |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
[2021]
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| In: |
Der Islam
Year: 2021, Volume: 98, Issue: 1, Pages: 6-26 |
| Further subjects: | B
Rasūlid
B Slavery B Medieval B Eunuchs B Yemen |
| Online Access: |
Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
