Consorts of the Caliphs James A. McDonough transformative ways

transformative ways

Uncovers the roots and consequences of and offers solutions to the widespread alienation and disconnection that beset modern society

as an absence of diverse millennial candidates leaves its future in a truly precarious position

infl uenced generations

and the pre- and post-war emergence of a national administrative elite and national institutions of business and culture

Consorts of the Caliphs James A. McDonough transformative waysConsorts of the Caliphs is a seventh thirteenth century compilation of anecdotes about thirty eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving texts by Ibn al Sa'i (d. 674 1276). Ibn al Sa'i was a prolific Baghdadi scholar who chronicled the academic and political elites