Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486471217 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar. What a wonderful look inside another culture from the point of view of a child & an adult, through their eyes & through their hearts of the good times, the hard times & the injustices. I would recommend this book to my daughter who has a respect for other cultures.. so waste of time an interesting book, about the sultan, of zanzibar, his wifes and 38u children. Also about arabs, and their costumes. Butit happened 1so waste of time Eva an interesting book, about the sultan, of zanzibar, his wifes and 38u children. Also about arabs, and their costumes. Butit happened 140 years agoHow is it now??How? Must be different, so waste of time. 0 years agoHow is it now??How? Must be different, so waste of time. "Interesting narrative" according to FG. Good story. Well told and very believable. Would recommend to anyone liking history. Excellent book. Good narrative and 20 words are really not needed to express an opinion.
Return to an era when Zanzibar was ruled by sultans, and enter a vanished world of harems, slave trading, and court intrigues. Originally published in 1886, this remarkable autobiography will captivate readers interested in Zanzibar and Eastern Africa as well as students of Arabic, Islam, and women's studies. . In this insider's story, a sultan's daughter who fled her gilded cage offers a compelling look at nineteenth-century Arabic and African royal life. After her dramatic elopement with a German trader, Ruete attained the perspective to form a comparison of the lives of women in Muslim society with those of their European contemporaries. Ruete ventures beyond the palace, into the city and plantations where European traders, miss
As Romero ( Life Histories of African Women ) explains, she was born in 1840 as Salme, princess of Oman and Zanzibar, and grew up privy to the machinations of her father's harem and of her scores of siblings. Following her father the sultan's death in 1856, Salme participated in one brother's unsuccessful coup to wrest the throne from another. The disparity between introduction and text, the latter translated from the German, generates a peculiarly successful tension, enhanced by carefully recorded details of court life. From Publishers Weekly Ruete could be the subject of a thrilling romance. Desp