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Harem refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family.
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This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Harem. Roman or Romans usually refers to:
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Hurrem Sultan, also known as Roxelana, was the chief consort and wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. She has become one of the most powerful and influential women in Ottoman history as well as a prominent and controversial figure during the era known as the Sultanate of Women.
A seraglio or serail is the sequestered living quarters used by wives and concubines in an Ottoman household. The term harem is a generic term for domestic spaces reserved for women in a Muslim family, which can also refer to the women themselves. The Ottoman Imperial Harem was known in Ottoman Turkish as Harem-i Hümâyûn.
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Inheritance is the transferring of property and debt upon death to a beneficiary.
A gladiator was an armed combatant entertainer in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.
Harem properly refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. This private space has been traditionally understood as serving the purposes of maintaining the modesty, privilege, and protection of women. A harem may house a man's wife or wives, their pre-pubescent male children, unmarried daughters, female domestic workers, and other unmarried female relatives. In royal harems of the past, concubines of the prince were also housed in the harem. In former times some harems were guarded by eunuchs who were allowed inside. The structure of the harem and the extent of monogamy or polygamy has varied depending on the family's personalities, socio-economic status, and local customs. Similar institutions have been common in other Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations, especially among royal and upper-class families, and the term is sometimes used in other contexts. In traditional Persian residential architecture the women's quarters were known as andaruni (Persian: اندرونی; meaning inside, and in the Indian subcontinent as zenana.
Mahfiruz Hatun was a concubine of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I and mother of Sultan Osman II.
Kösem Sultan – also known as Mahpeyker Sultan – was one of the most powerful women in Ottoman history. Kösem Sultan achieved power and influenced the politics of the Ottoman Empire when she became haseki sultan as favourite consort of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I and valide sultan as mother of Murad IV and Ibrahim, and grandmother of Mehmed IV.
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Jason Goodwin is an English writer and historian.
Aşub Sultan Ottoman Turkish: آشوب سلطان; died 3 January 1690) was a consort of Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim and Valide Sultan to their son Suleiman II.
Sineperver Sultan was the fourth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid I, and Valide Sultan to their son Sultan Mustafa IV of the Ottoman Empire.
Perestu Kadın was the Circassian legal wife of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire. She was given the title and position of valide sultan when Abdul Hamid II ascended the throne in 1876 making her the last valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Kadın was the title given to the imperial consort of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire towards the beginning of the seventeenth century. The title came into official usage at the end of the century, and remained in usage until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Fatma Pesend Hanım was the twelfth wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.
The Sultanate of Women was a period of extraordinary political influence exerted by wives and mothers of the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire. This phenomenon in the early modern period, approximately between the years 1533 and 1656, began during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent with his marriage to Hürrem Sultan. These sultanas were either the wives of the Sultan, referred to as Haseki Sultans, or the mothers of the Sultan, known as Valide Sultans. Many of these women were of slave origins, as was expected of the sultanate, since traditional marriage roles were considered too large of a risk for the Sultan, who was expected to have no personal allegiances outside his title. During this time, Haseki and Valide Sultans held political and social power, which allowed them to influence the daily running of the empire, as well as requesting the construction of buildings, and philanthropic works.