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The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Jane Hathaway
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Jane Hathaway
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of th
The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Jane Hathaway
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of th
The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire
Language: en
Pages: 415
Authors: George H. Junne
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-22 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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The Chief Black Eunuch, appointed personally by the Sultan, had both the ear of the leader of a vast Islamic Empire and held power over a network of spies and i
Beshir Agha
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Jane Hathaway
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Oneworld Academic

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Beshir Agha (c. 1657-1746) was the most powerful Chief Harem Eunuch in the history of the Ottoman Empire. Enslaved in his native Ethiopia as a boy, then castrat