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| | HAREM - LoveToKnow Article on HAREM |
 | | The object of this insistence upon female chastity is partly the maintenance of the purity of the family with special reference to property, and partly to protect women from marauders, as was the case with] the people of India when the Mahommedans invaded the country and sought for women to fill their harems. | | | Zenana schools and hospitals have been founded, and a few women have been trained as doctors and lawyers for the special purposes of protecting the women against their own ignorance and inertia. | | | Gradually native Christian churches are making provision for the attendance of women at their services, though the sexes are rigorously kept apart. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HA/HAREM.htm
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| | Another meaning of harem — rarely used in Western languages, but important in Arabic — was to denote an area where not uninvited or unworthy might enter. | | | The traditional harem, a place where anything between 1 and 4 wives lived, sometimes with other female relatives, was a place where even visitors might not enter. | | | Here, the harem denoted the collection of women who were at free disposal of the male owner. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/harem.htm
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| | 1 a the women of a Muslim household, living in a separate part of the house. |
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http://www.bahiachiquita.com/h/harem.html
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| | All About Romance Novels - The Harem |
| | The fate of the harem women when the old Sultan died and the new one came to the throne was a sad one. | | | He could have sexual relationships with women, and since that was the case, a eunuch of this type did not directly serve the harem women. | | | The Sultan, who was an absolute ruler, had a harem of several hundred women along with eunuchs to guard them. |
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http://www.likesbooks.com/harem.html
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| | The princes of the Muhammadi family were permitted to marry and to form their own households, and every one of Muhammad Ali's successors began to have children while still a prince. | | | Mohammed Ali had had the same kind of harem as the Sultan, consisting exclusively of slaves, and this custom had been continued by his successors down to the Khédive. | | | Among Turkish princes it is a very ancient usage, and one that Muhammad Ali has continued in the government of his pashalik, to give female slaves from the harem to the officers of his nation. |
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http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~mescha/famabstracts/cuno.html
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| | harem on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Although the harem is rapidly disappearing in the 20th cent., there nevertheless are still some in existence in the more remote areas of the Muslim world. | | | In India the harem is called a purdah or zenana; in Iran, andarun. | | | (hâr´em) [Arabic], term applied to women's apartments in a Muslim household. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/h1/harem.asp
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| | Harem (household) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Contrary to the common belief, harem is not necessarily a part of a palace and its inhabitants do not necessarily consist solely of women with whom the head of the household has a sexual relation. | | | The women who lived in an emperor's hougong sometimes numbered in the thousands. | | | Another English definition for this term that is more modern in its usage is that of a number of women followers or admirers. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harem_(household)
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| | Zehara -- Belly dance information |
| | The word "harem" comes from the word "haram", which means "forbidden": men who were not part of the immediate family were forbidden to enter the women's quarters when they visited their friends. | | | In ordinary houses it would be the section where women do their everyday tasks, cooking, sewing, gossiping with friends and minding the children. | | | If we consider that most of the women in the Middle East until fairly recently lived in these Harems, we are talking a most unbelievable collection of "women only" groups. |
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http://www.zehara.co.uk/bdfactshareem.htm
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| | Iranica.com - HAREM |
| | On the other hand, the institution of the harem (on which see Penzer) was firmly established in the ancient Near East. | | | Herodotus (1.135), who wrote in the time of Artaxerxes, testifies that each (notable) Persian man had several wives, and a still larger number of concubines (Strabo, Geography 15.3.17, adds: "for the sake of having many children"). | | | The following is an outline of the harem life of the Achaemenid epoch, which served as a model for subsequent periods. |
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http://www.iranica.com/articles/v11f6/v11f6070a.html
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| | Secret garden: Topkapi Palace Harem |
| | The word harem originates from the Arabic harim, comprising the | | | harem were based for the most part on hearsay. | | | royal harem and the harems of upper and middle-class Ottoman houses |
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| | HUDA SHAARAWI (1879-1947) was among the last generation of Egyptian women to live in the segregated world of the harem. | | | Born into an upper-class family, Huda Shaarawi tells of her bitter jealously of the brother whom all favored over her, of the limits placed on the education she craved, and of her eventual triumph as a leader of other women. | | | In Margot Badran's faithful and elegant translation, Huda Shaarawi's memoirs will have a permanent place in the literature of women's studies and of middle eastern history. |
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http://www.feministpress.org/onix?isbn=0935312706
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| | Harem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | Harem, an anime or manga story wherein one male character is surrounded by — often living with — several female characters | | | Harem, a part of the household forbidden to male strangers |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harem
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| | Reader's Theatre: Ottoman Harem |
| | They focus on their harems and the women of the harem distract the Sultans and in doing so get their heirs on the throne. | | | She influences Suleyman the Sultan, and is greatly loved by him. | | | As you know, we concubines in the harem are considered to have no heritage. |
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http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/play/rharem33130519.htm
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| | Egyptian queens - Ancient Egyptian Royal Harem. Queen's Residence. |
| | She would have also been a woman of considerable personal wealth, influence, and, as the wife of the living god on earth, highly privileged. | | | The ancient Egyptian word, which commonly referred to this part of the Palace, was ipet or per-khemret, which is often translated into, ‘harem’. | | | Presiding over all proceedings of the household would be the first queen, who was most likely to be of Royal birth, sometimes a half or full sister to Pharaoh. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - harem pants |
| | Search for books about your topic, "harem pants" | | | Harem, multiple wives of a Muslim household, or the living quarter reserved for such wives and other female members of a Muslim household. | | | Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers--quickly search thousands of articles from magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, and Smithsonian. |
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| | Father joked that he had a harem of five daughters. | | | the women in a Muslim household, including the mother, sisters, wives, concubines, daughters, entertainers, and servants. | | | a group of women associated in any way with one man or household: |
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http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/harem
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| | Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net |
| | His authority was undermined by the harem (household) harem influences. | | | The power had only been maintained under Selim II by the genius of the all-powerful grand vizier Mehmed Sokollu. |
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| | AskOxford: harem |
| | • noun 1 the separate part of a Muslim household reserved for women. |
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| | arab harem |
| | (cf aram) is the part of the household forbidden to male tionmaster m encyclopedia Harem-(household) Cached Similar s Huda Shaarawi (1879-1947) Egyptian nationalist and feministAn upper-class woman, Huda was born and educated in the harem system, Huda was also a speaker throughout the Arab world and through | | | (cf r haram) is the part of the household forbidden to male strangers b tionmaster m encyclopedia Harem Cached Similar s Encyclopedia: Harem (household)Other descriptions of Harem (household) n traditional Arab culture, the harîm ???? | | | In Reply to: What would you call an Arab who owns a harem of cows? |
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