Queens, Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History, 661–1257

The first comprehensive study of sexual politics in Medieval Islam Studies the military-political power of eunuchs and their relations with women under the Fatimid dynasty, and the appearance of first queen in Islamic historyInvestigates the power of the Turkmen women in the politics and how and why they introduced the unique post of atabegExamines the role of the first Sunni queen in Islam, Dayfa Khatun the Ayyubid in Aleppo, and how she paved the way for another queen, Shajar al-Durr in EgyptC