A standalone episode on Tāj al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Anjab ibn al-Sā’ī, and his solitary work that survives in its entirety, Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad.
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Sources:
Ibn al-Sā'ī. Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad, edited by Shawkat M. Toorawa. New York University Press, 2015.
Caswell, F.M. The Slave Girls of Baghdad: The Qiyan in the Early Abbasid Era. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.
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