LEADER 03352nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910811551303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-79390-1 024 7 $a10.7560/718425 035 $a(CKB)1000000000720618 035 $a(EBL)3443366 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000128370 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11138927 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128370 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10064380 035 $a(PQKB)11551202 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443366 035 $a(OCoLC)309886209 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2373 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443366 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273741 035 $a(DE-B1597)587518 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292793903 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000720618 100 $a20080521d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe concubine, the princess, and the teacher $evoices from the Ottoman harem /$ftranslated and edited by Douglas Scott Brookes 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (325 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-71842-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-303) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- The concubine Filizten -- The princess Ayse -- The teacher Safiye -- Conclusion. 330 $aIn 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 women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The memoirists are Filizten, concubine to Sultan Murad V; Princess Ayse, daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid II; and Safiye, a schoolteacher who instructed the grandchildren and harem ladies of Sultan Mehmed V. Their recollections of the Ottoman harem reveal the rigid protocol and hierarchy that governed the lives of the imperial family and concubines, as well as the hundreds of slave women and black eunuchs in service to them. The memoirists show that, far from being a place of debauchery, the harem was a family home in which polite and refined behavior prevailed. Douglas Brookes explains the social structure of the nineteenth-century Ottoman palace harem in his introduction. These three memoirs, written across a half century and by women of differing social classes, offer a fuller and richer portrait of the Ottoman imperial harem than has ever before been available in English. 606 $aHarems$zTurkey 606 $aWomen$zTurkey$vBiography 606 $aWomen$zTurkey$xSocial conditions 615 0$aHarems 615 0$aWomen 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions. 676 $a306.84/23092249618 701 $aBrookes$b Douglas Scott$f1950-$0787944 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811551303321 996 $aThe concubine, the princess, and the teacher$93977290 997 $aUNINA