Economic Activities of Safavid Women in the Shrine‐City of Ardabil

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ID9978877
AutoresFariba Zarinebaf‐Shahr (University of Illinois Chicago, autor correspondente)
Ano1998
Volume31
Fascículo2
Páginas247-261
Data de publicação1998-01-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIranian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00210869808701907
OpenAlexW1980363431
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas13

After more than half of the urdū has gone by, the Shah's maidens pass on fine horses; and they ride like men and dress like men, except that on their heads they do not wear caps but white kerchiefs. And in the company of those maidens go 10 or 12 old men, who are called īshīk-āqāsīs, that is masters of the house. And I have seen that there were about 14-15 of those maidens, and they were beautiful, though their faces could not be fully seen. But what could be seen was beautiful and very fair. And sometimes they galloped and performed marvels with their horses, making them jump and do many other skillful tricks. They went thus behind the court, where the Shah's tents were pitched. (Membré, the Venetian envoy in Maraghah, September 1539) Despite extant, though often indirect references to women in manuscript and archival sources, modern historians of Safavid Iran have paid little attention to the active role of women in the formative period of its history

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