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This study examines the marital data preserved within the Arabic genealogical works of the early ninth century CE in order to better understand the tribal relationships of the pre-Islamic Quraysh (the Arabic tribe to which Muhammad belonged). The research establishes the accuracy of the Nasab Quraysh (Genealogy of the Quraysh) and informs a more nuanced analysis of the politics of the Central Hijaz into which Islam was born.

Concubinage. --- Concubines. --- Islam. --- Marriage. --- Women.

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"By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women."--Book cover.

Courtesans --- Courts and courtiers --- Ladies-in-waiting --- Favorites, Royal --- Harems --- Courtisanes --- Cour et courtisans --- Dames d'honneur --- Favorites --- Harems (Femmes) --- History. --- Histoire --- J4201 --- J4624 --- Harem --- Polygyny --- Court favorites --- Royal favorites --- Queens --- Court and courtiers --- Courtiers --- Kings and rulers --- Manners and customs --- Prostitutes --- History --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- social classes and groups -- upper class, elite --- Japan: Politics and law -- state -- emperor --- african royal harem. --- anthropology. --- archeology. --- attendants. --- aztec royalty. --- benin. --- chinese imperial courts. --- concubines. --- drudges. --- entertainers. --- french royalty. --- gender and power. --- gender studies. --- global history. --- history. --- human history. --- japanese shogun. --- maids. --- male rulers. --- mayan states. --- men and women. --- monarchy. --- mothers. --- mughal india. --- nigeria. --- nobility. --- officials. --- patriarchal society. --- productive power. --- reproductive power. --- royal courts. --- royalty. --- sex. --- versailles. --- wives. --- women in royal courts. --- world history.

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This work provides a wide-ranging analysis of 'unrespectable' women and children living on the margins of mainstream Italian society, considering the interrelated aspects of Italian social history, Catholic charity and social policy over a period of five centuries.

Social conditions. --- Prostitutes. --- Abandoned children. --- Abandoned children --- Prostitutes --- Children, Abandoned --- Exposed children --- Homeless children --- Call girls --- Female prostitutes --- Girls, Call --- Harlots --- Hookers (Prostitutes) --- Hustlers (Prostitutes) --- Street prostitutes --- Streetwalkers --- Strumpets --- Tarts (Prostitutes) --- Trollops (Prostitutes) --- Whores (Prostitutes) --- Women prostitutes --- Sex workers --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- History. --- Italy. --- Italy --- Italia --- Italian Republic (1946- ) --- Italianska republika --- Italʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Italie --- Italien --- Italii︠a︡ --- Italii︠a︡ Respublikasi --- Italiĭsʹka Respublika --- Itālija --- Itālijas Republika --- Italijos Respublika --- Italikē Dēmokratia --- Īṭāliyā --- Italiya Respublikasi --- It'allia --- It'allia Konghwaguk --- İtalya --- İtalya Cumhuriyeti --- Iṭalyah --- Iṭalye --- Itaria --- Itaria Kyōwakoku --- Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah --- Kgl. Italienische Regierung --- Königliche Italienische Regierung --- Laško --- Lýðveldið Ítalía --- Olasz Köztársaság --- Olaszország --- Regno d'Italia (1861-1946) --- Repubblica italiana (1946- ) --- Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit --- Włochy --- Yidali --- Yidali Gongheguo --- Ιταλική Δημοκρατία --- Ιταλία --- Итальянская Республика --- Италианска република --- Италия --- Италия Республикаси --- Італьянская Рэспубліка --- Італія --- Італійська Республіка --- איטאליע --- איטליה --- רפובליקה האיטלקית --- إيطاليا --- جمهورية الإيطالية --- イタリア --- イタリア共和国 --- 意大利 --- 意大利共和国 --- 이탈리아 --- 이탈리아 공화국 --- Sardinia (Italy) --- Italian Republic --- Italʹi͡anskai͡a Rėspublika --- Italii͡ --- Italii͡a Respublikasi --- Īṭāliy --- Regno d'Italia --- Repubblica italiana --- abandoned children. --- concubines. --- honour. --- infanticide. --- lesser evil. --- rescue. --- sodomy. --- tolerance.