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In Islamic cultures
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Pre-Islamic background
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Western representations
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Non-Islamic equivalents
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Overview
- Arabic Arabic language
- Romanized Romanization of Arabic
- Lit. Literal translation
- Muslim
- Servants Domestic worker
- Era of slavery in the Muslim world History of slavery in the Muslim world
- Concubines Concubinage in Islam
- Eunuchs
- Monogamy
- Polygyny
- Mediterranean Mediterranean Basin
- Traditional Persian residential architecture
- Andaruni
- Persian Persian language
- Indian subcontinent
- Zenana
- Urdu Urdu language
- Western culture
- Afghanistan
- Persian Gulf
- European Renaissance
- Sultanate of Women
- Ottoman Empire
- Caliph of Cordoba
- Saqaliba
- Abd al-Rahman I
- Jawaris Jawari
- Umm walad
- Al-Hakam II
- Abd al-Rahman III
Terminology
Ideal of seclusion
- Leila Ahmed
- Byzantine Empire
- Mamluk Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)
- Arabian Peninsula
Pre-Islamic background
- Muhammad
- Islam
- Ancient Near East
- Encyclopædia Iranica
- Ancient Egypt
- Anachronism
- Assyria
- Median Empire
- Eunuchs Eunuch
- Gynaeceum
- Ancient Greek Ancient Greek language
- Women in the Byzantine Empire
- Achaemenid Empire
- Medes
- Old Persian
- Darius III
- Parthians Parthian Empire
- Hetairas Hetaira
- Women in the Sasanian Empire
- Sasanian Empire
- Sasanian
- Khosrow II
- Shirin
- Purdah
- Ashoka
- Maurya Empire
In Islamic cultures
- Islamic prophet
- Rashidun Caliphate
- Umayyad
- Abbasid
- Hadith
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Abbasid caliphate
- Quran
- Al-Hadi
- Al-Khayzuran
- Nabia Abbott
- Raabi'a al-Adwiyya Rabia Basri
- 'Ulayya bint al-Mahdi
- Qiyan
- Shāriyah
- Fadl Ashsha'ira
- Arib al-Ma'muniyya
- Al-Andalus
- Alaouite sultan Alaouite dynasty
- Barbary slave trade
- Trans-Saharan slave trade
- Moulay Ismail Ismail Ibn Sharif
- Morocco
- Lalla Balqis
- Lalla Aisha Lalla Aisha Mubarka
- Dominique Busnot Dominique Busnot?action=edit&redlink=1
- Guinness Book of Records Guinness World Records
- University of Vienna
- Circassian slave trade
- Hassan II of Morocco
Eunuchs and slavery
- Maria al-Qibtiyya
- The Umayyad Caliphate Slavery in the Umayyad Caliphate
- The Abbasid Caliphate Slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate
- Safavid harem Safavid imperial harem
- Ottomans Ottoman Turks
- Kizlar Agha
- Nilotic Nilotic peoples
- Encyclopedia of Islam
- Al-Muqaddasi
- Encyclopaedia Judaica
- Castration centers Castration centers?action=edit&redlink=1
- Circassia
- Circassians
- Abazins
Non-Islamic equivalents
- Chieftains Chieftain
- Zulu King King of the Zulu Nation
- Goodwill Zwelithini
- Nigerian chieftaincy system
- Oba of Benin City Oba of Benin
- Nigerian kingdom Nigerian kingdoms
- Mesoamerica
- Aztec
- Montezuma II
- Hernán Cortés
- Aztec nobility Pipiltin
- King of Cambodia
- Hindus
- Chinese Chinese language
- Imperial Chinese Harem Imperial Chinese harem system
- Palaces Palace
- Muscovite Grand Duchy of Moscow
- Terem Terem (Russia)
- Russian Russian language
Western representations
- European colonialism History of colonialism
- One Thousand and One Nights
- Brothel
- Mozart
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail
- Pasha
- Voltaire
- Candide
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Il corsaro
- The Lustful Turk
- Victorian novel Victorian literature
- Sexual slavery
- Dey
- Algiers Ottoman Algeria
- A Night in a Moorish Harem
- Erotic novel
- Shipwrecked Shipwrecking
- The Sheik The Sheik (novel)
- E. M. Hull
- 1921 film of the same name The Sheik (film)
- First World War
- Forced seduction
- Sexual submission
- Orientalist Orientalism
- Angelique and the Sultan
- Angélique historical novel series Angélique (novel series)
- Anne Anne Golon
- Serge Golon
- King of Morocco
Modern day harems
- Prince Jefri Bolkiah
- Brunei
- Jillian Lauren
- Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
- Adnan Khashoggi
- Jill Dodd Jill Dodd?action=edit&redlink=1
People
Places
Other
Bibliography
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
- Betzig, Laura Laura Betzig
- Doi Doi (identifier)
- S2CID S2CID (identifier)
- Fisher, Jackson & Lockhart (1986) Harem
- Alev Lytle Croutier
- Abbeville Publishing Group (Abbeville Press, Inc.)
- Abbeville Press
- Shapi Kaziev
- Kishori Saran Lal K. S. Lal
- The Mughal Harem
- Fatima Mernissi
- Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
- Leslie P. Peirce
- Oxford University Press
- N. M. Penzer Norman Mosley Penzer
- Dover Publications
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Nodes451
Edges450
Triples764
Avg. degree2
Density0.004435
Components1
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related to Sources · 164
Harem → ABC-CLIO, Ahmed, Alan, Ancient Egypt, Ann, Ansary, Anwar, Archived, BC, Bearman, Before, Behar, Bernard Lewis, Betzig, Bianquis, Bosworth, Brill, Britannica, Brosius, Calderini
related to Further reading · 80
Harem → Abbeville Press, Abbeville Publishing Group, Aditya Prakashan, Akşit, Akşit Kültür Turizm Yayınları, Alev Lytle Croutier, An Account, And The Ottoman Harem, Cambridge University Press, Cem Behar, Concubines, Delta, Dover Publications, Dreams, Duben, Existed, Fabricated Accounts, Family, Fertility, Foundation
related to Image gallery · 24
Harem → Concubines, Depictions, Dominique IngresThe Reception, Fernand Cormon, Francesco GuardiThe Dormitory, Francois Boucher, HaremsThe Pasha, His Harem, Ignace Melling, In, Jean-Baptiste, Jean-Léon Gérôme, John Frederick Lewis, Landrock, Lehnert, Many Western, MourScene, Nelson, Odalisque, Quintana Olleras
related to Ottoman Empire · 24
Harem → Constantinople, Crimean, During, Empire, Eunuchs, Haseki Sultan, Hürrem Sultan, Imperial Harem, In, It, Magnificent, Ottoman, Ottoman Empire, Selim II, Some, Suleiman, Sultanate, The, The Imperial Harem, The Ottoman
related to Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates · 23
Harem → Abbasid, Abbasid Caliphate, Although, But, Byzantine Empire, Hadith, In, Islam, Islamic, It, Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, Muhammad, Muhammad's, Muslim, Muslims, Persia, Quran, Quranic, Rashidun Caliphate
related to Saudi Arabia · 21
Harem → Abdul Aziz, African, Among, Arab, Armenian, As, Aside, Baraka Al Yamaniyah, For, His, Ibn Saud, Islamic, King Ibn Saud, Prince Fahd, Prince Moqren, Prince Tallal, Saudi Arabia, Since, Sudairi, These
related to Western representations · 21
Harem → Belmonte, Die Entführung, European, Europeans, In, Islamic, Konstanze, Mozart, Muslim, One Nights, One Thousand, Oriental, Orientalist, Pasha Selim, Seraglio, Serail, The Abduction, These, Under, West
related to Zanzibar and Oman · 20
Harem → African, Bulgarian, Circassian, Emily Ruete, Enslaved, Ethiopian, Georgian, Indian, Iran, Jilfidan, Oman, Persia, Princess Emily Ruete, Said, Sultan, Sultan Seyyid Said, The, When, White, Zanzibar
related to Southeast Asian Sultanates · 19
Harem → Aceh, Aceh Sultanate, Banten Sultanate, East Asia, Eunuchs, Gowa Sultanate, Islam, Islamic, Java, Mataram Sultanate, Muslim, Persian, Sharia, South East Asia, Southeast Asia, Sulawesi, Sumatra, The, The Royal
related to Eunuchs and slavery · 18
Harem → Abbasid, Abbasid Caliphate, Byzantine, During, Egypt, Eunuchs, Fatimid, Islamic, Islamically, Mabur, Maria, Muhammad, Persian, Qajar, Qibtiyya, Safavid, The, Umayyad Caliphate
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Important terminology
women concubines slave royal eunuchs wives slaves female islamic muslim seclusion harems ottoman also sultan mother world men enslaved empire
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| haram | instance of | The triliteral root Ḥ-R-M appears in other terms related to the notion of interdiction | 0.80 | text |
| Assyria | instance of | where such practices were used in some cultures | 0.80 | text |
| in the case of Marjan | instance of | and a favorite concubine was given great luxury and honorary titles | 0.80 | text |
| who gave birth to al-Hakam II | instance of | and a favorite concubine was given great luxury and honorary titles | 0.80 | text |
| the heir of Abd al-Rahman III | instance of | and a favorite concubine was given great luxury and honorary titles | 0.80 | text |
| the hujjab office | instance of | were popular as courtiers and high court offices | 0.80 | text |
| chauffeurs in the Royal Household | instance of | as well as male slaves performing other positions | 0.80 | text |
| the bash qalfa | instance of | and could have servant offices | 0.80 | text |
| chief servant slave woman of the walida pasha.The enslaved female servants of the khedivate harem were manumitted | instance of | and could have servant offices | 0.80 | text |
| married off with a trousseau in strategic marriages to the male freedmen or slaves | instance of | and could have servant offices | 0.80 | text |
| Constantinople | instance of | the separation of men's and women's quarters was never practiced among the urban poor in large cities | 0.80 | text |
| and by the 1920s | instance of | the separation of men's and women's quarters was never practiced among the urban poor in large cities | 0.80 | text |
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