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harem
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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harem the separate part of a Muslim household reserved for wives, concubines, and female servants; the women living there. In extended usage, the word also denotes the wives (or concubines) of a polygamous man, and thus a group of female animals sharing a single mate.
The word comes (in the mid 17th century) from Arabic
ḥaram,
ḥarīm, literally ‘prohibited, prohibited place’, and from this ‘sanctuary, women's quarters, women’.
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Behind the Harem Walls
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/29/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Though such "imperial harems" indeed existed in the...lived in a "domestic harem," to wit: "One could define domestic harems as extended family arrangements...sphere. In these domestic harems, the men need not have...Indeed, what defines the harem is the desire of the...
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SECRETS OF THE HAREM; A new TV series tells the story of the most ruthless concubine in history, a scheming seductress who slept her way to power. But did she cause the fall of an empire?
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/28/2003; 700+ words
; ...hunting for new women to imprison in the harem of Suleyman the Magnificent, Sultan of...she eventually arrived at the imperial harem, at the heart of Topkapi Palace in Constantinople...she knew that the women who entered the harem never left. We can only imagine her desperation...
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Harem Suare.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...living inside the Sultans harem at the end of the Ottoman...to thinking about the harems, particularly their...long ago, inside the harem, speaking to the women...through the ranks of the harem was Hurren the favourite...was abolished and the harems closed. The women were...
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Harem Suare
Magazine article from: Middle East; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...inside the Sultan's harem at the end of the Ottoman...to thinking about the harems, particularly their...long ago, inside the harem, speaking to the women...through the ranks of the harem was Hurren the favourite...was abolished and the harems closed. The women were...
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Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures: Representing the Harem, 1800-1875.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...numerous depictions of harems, has expanded...to examine the harem, its associations...children in the harem, and the representation...the meanings of harems to Western artists...used to describe harems, that the incertitude...Impressionists' harem p
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Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures: Representing the Harem, 1800-1875.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...representations of "the harem." (Ruth Bernard Yeazell's Harems of the Mind: Passages...Quotes bracket "the harem" throughout DelPlato...misunderstanding of the harem" is an exemplary contradiction...disbelief in "real harems." Her reasons for...
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Royal French women in the Ottoman sultans' harem: the political uses of fabricated accounts from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century.
Magazine article from: Journal of World History; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The Ottoman sultans' harem, characterized by the seclusion of the...royal connections in the Ottoman imperial harem has been used for political purposes from...time that Nakshidil entered the imperial harem, as the French Revolution and Napoleon...
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CINEMA-TURKEY: THE HAREM -- TALES OF SUBMISSION AND SLAVERY
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Turkish Bath). His latest film "Harem Suare," looks set to further...living inside the Sultan's harem at the end of the Ottoman empire...was led to thinking about the harems, particularly their closing...storyteller tells a story inside the harem to the women living there...
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Moroccan girlhood: An open door into the harem
Newspaper article from: Arab American News; 6/9/1995; ; 533 words
; ...the ages of 5 and 9. The word harem may conjure up the image of...slaves. But this imperial style harem hasn't existed since 1909...the West. After, domestic harems continued to exist and were...t polygamy that defined a harem but the men's desire to seclude...
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Fatimi Mernisi Talks About Life Growing up in a Harem
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 6/4/1994; 700+ words
; ...family when her mother left the family harem and her mother pushed her to accomplish...departure. Dreams of Trespass - Tales of a Harem Girlhood is an invented memoir that moves...Sociologist/Author: I was born in a harem in 1940 in Favre [sp], a 9th century...
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Harem
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...HAREM HAREM. The Arabic term harem means a forbidden and sacred...ordinary meaning of the word harem usually refers to the extended...polygamous household. Ruling-class harems, however, were usually polygamous...institution of the imperial harem can be traced back to the ancient...
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harem
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
harem [Arabic], term applied to women...veiling and seclusion of women into harems became more common. The most famous harem, that of the sultans of Turkey...Abd al-Hamid II. The sultan's harem often contained several hundred women...
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Qianlong
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Kangxi emperor, like all Chinese emperors, had a harem of wives and concubines. The harem was primarily a political institution which strengthened...families whose daughters were invited into the harem, all of whom hoped to become the mother of an...
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Odalisque
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...important position in the Ottoman imperial harem and ruling class households during the...notable households. Within the imperial harem, the Ottomans followed a policy of one...the hands of any one woman. The imperial harem, which housed hundreds of women, had...
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Slave Trade
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...and female slaves in elite harems. Even ordinary domestic slaves...with other types of slavery: harem (quite different from Western...enjoyed by free officials. Harem women of slave origins were...servility of persons in the kul /harem category becomes more a symbol...
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