MESAS 200W Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Valide Sultan, Janissaries

• School: Emory University
• Department: Middle Eastern & South Asian
• Course: MESAS 200W
• Professor: Dr. Margariti Roxani

Document Summary

Fatih - opening of islam, each time they conquered. All the definitions that apply to the word harem . Eunuchs are the only ones who can enter here. Groups of people who were part of the administrative circles and inner circle of the. Viziers + pasa - administrators and ministers. In the feudal state, open succession - the throne is up for grabs. The soldiers are important, the vizier that gives him the scroll, the guy who gives him his sword. Royal women did very well - seclusion was an index of mobility, the invisible you are, the. In historical times, clothes were a big item of wealth more noble you are. It wasn"t oppressive like we think of as now. Hurrem - an important women who came in as a christian slave, was converted to islam, and married a sultan.