The Slave Girls of Baghdad: The Qiyan in the Early Abbasid Era PDF
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F. Matthew Caswell has a doctorate in Classical Arabic from the University of Oxford, and has had a long career as a barrister. He is a member of Wadham College, Oxford and the author of several plays and a collection of short stories. CCaasswweellll__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd ii 55//2244//22001111 1111::1155::1188 AAMM CCaasswweellll__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd iiii 55//2244//22001111 1111::1155::1188 AAMM THE SLAVE GIRLS OF BAGHDAD The Qiyān in the Early Abbasid Era Fuad Matthew Caswell CCaasswweellll__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd iiiiii 66//1100//22001111 66::1177::4422 PPMM Published in 2011 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com Distributed in the United States and Canada Exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Copyright © 2011 Fuad Matthew Caswell The right of Fuad Matthew Caswell to be identifi ed as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Library of Middle East History 28 ISBN 978 1 84885 577 9 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress catalog card: available Printed and bound in India by Thomson Press (India) Camera-ready copy edited and supplied by the author CCaasswweellll__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd iivv 55//2244//22001111 1111::1155::1188 AAMM CONTENTS Abbreviations and conventions vii Transliteration viii Glossary ix Introduction 1 1. The social scene 10 2. Imā’ shawā‘ir and qiyān 37 3. Four slave-women poets 56 ‘Inān 56 Fad.l 81 ‘Arīb 96 Sakan 123 4. Some other slave-girl poets: short biographical notes 133 5. Al-Imā’ al-shawā‘ir as eulogists 148 6. Al-Imā’ al-shawā‘ir as mourners 169 7. Al-Imā’ al-shawā‘ir as satirists and lampoonists 184 8. Notable free women 191 CCaasswweellll__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd vv 55//2244//22001111 1111::1155::1188 AAMM vi THE SLAVE-GIRLS OF BAGHDAD 9. Amatory poetry 210 10. Singing 229 11. The singing slave girls 240 12. Decline and fall 258 13. Epilogue 267 Appendix I: The Abbasid caliphs and their accession dates 273 Appendix II: Non-Arab mothers of Abbasid caliphs 274 Appendix III: Some 3rd/9th-century jawārī: poets, singers, composers 275 Appendix IV: Some qiyān trade slogans 278 Notes 280 Bibliography 307 Index 319 CCaasswweellll__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd vvii 66//1100//22001111 66::1177::4433 PPMM ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS b. ibn (son of), when used between names bt bint (daughter), when used between names pl. plural sg. singular tr. translation/translated by Year dates are given as both Anno Hegirae and Anno Domini (e.g. 145/762) BEO Bulletin d’études orientales EAL (see under “Meisami” Encyclopaedia of Arabic Literature) Enc. Brit. Encyclopedia Britannica EI-2 Encyclopaedia of Islam, New (second) Edition (Leiden, 1960–2009) JA Journal Asiatique JAL Journal of Arabic Literature JSS Journal of Semitic Studies In relation to poems, the first rhyme-word is given at the first mention in order to facilitate their retrieval in editions other than the ones used here. Where the citation is of a repartee or an exchange in verse using the same rhyme, it is given only with the first part. CCaasswweellll__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd vviiii 55//2244//22001111 1111::1155::1199 AAMM TRANSLITERATION Arabic words and nouns are transliterated according to the system employed in the Encyclopaedia of Islam, New (second) Edition, with the following changes: j for dj, q for k. no underlining of digraphs and no shortening of long vowels before two consonant (e.g. Abū l-Hasan, not Abu l-Hasan). Names and terms commonly used in English are not transliterated according to this system (e.g. Abbasid, Baghdad, Iraq, Hijaz). CCaasswweellll__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd vviiiiii 55//2244//22001111 1111::1155::1199 AAMM GLOSSARY Some Arabic words and their respective meanings as used in this book ‘addādāt professional mourners akhbār reports ama, pl. imā’ slave-girl atlāl traces of past encampment; ruins du ‘ā’ wish prayer faqīh a jurist; legal scholar fityān fashionable young, cultural men about town ghāliya blend of perfumes ghazal courtship poetry hadīth Prophetic tradition; literally, narrative hawā love hazaj singing with light modulation; chanting hijā’ invective; satire hudā’ camel driver’s song hurra, pl. harā’ir free woman ibāhī licentious iblīs the devil ‘iffa virtue; modesty ijāza chasing; following on imā’ slave-girls (see ama) imā’ shawā‘ir slave-girl poets CCaasswweellll__PPrreelliimmss..iinndddd iixx 55//2244//22001111 1111::1155::1199 AAMM
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