 | Unveiling the Harem: Elite Women and the Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth-Century Cairo Subjects: Women -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Mamelukes -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Harems -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 18th century; Households -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 18th century; Cairo (Egypt) -- Social life and cu; A history of elite women who were concubines and wives of powerful slave-soldiers, known as Mamluks, who dominated Egypt both politically and militarily in the eighteenth century. |
