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Buku 'The Slave Girls of Baghdad - The Qiyan in the Early Abbasid Era' tulisan Fuad Caswell (b.1950 - Baghdad). Buku terbitan IB Tauris tahun 2011. Buku berasas kepada tesis phd beliau di Oxford. Fuad Caswell  (Caswell diambil dari nama keluarga isteri beliau) Fuad Matthew Caswell has a PhD in Classical Arabic from the University of Oxford, and has had a long career as Barrister. (read -  caswell ). The Qiyan in the Early Abbasid Era Contents: From the refined Geisha of the Imperial Court to the learned hetaerae of Ancient Greece, the captivating history of courtesans and slave girls transcends countless cultural boundaries and fields of academic study.  The Slave Girls of Baghdad explores the origins, education and art of the "qiyan" - indentured girls and women who entertained and entranced the caliphs and aristocrats who worked the labyrinths of power within ninth-century Baghdad and throughout the Abbasid Empire. Through a detailed analysis of Islamic law, histori...

Buku terbitan Osprey Publishing tahun 2001. Buku tulisan David Nicolle (b.1944). David worked for eight years in the BBC Arabic Service. In 1971 he went back to school gaining MA from SOAS and a PhD from Edinburgh University. For some years he taught art and architectural history at Yarmuk University, Jordan. David has written many Osprey titles including Men-at-Arms 140 'Armies of the Ottoman Turks', Men-at-Arms 320 'Armies of the Caliphates 862-1098', and Campaign 43 'Fornovo 1495'. The Crusades - Essential Histories - - - - -