ISLA 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Qarmatians

• School: McGill University
• Department: Islamic Studies
• Course: ISLA 210
• Professor: Malek Abisaab

Document Summary

Sept. 27, 2017: what was the impact of the political-military organizations of islamic societies (under the. In abbasid society women were conspicuous for their absence from all arenas of the community"s central affairs. Henceforth, women of the elite and bourgeois classes would live out their lives in seclusion, guarded by eunuchs if wealthy. My aim here is to draw together the available information on women"s lives in the period subsequent to the establishment of islam and to the consolidation of its founding institutions and the articulation of its dominant discourses. The focus here, geographically and with respect to the specific time-period, is largely determined by the availability of information. Thus the societies focused on are primarily those of egypt, turkey, and syria and the sources and research drawn on relate chiefly to the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries (the mamluk and ottoman periods).