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by Emily Ruete, Sayyida Prin. of Zanzibar
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ISBN: 0486471217 Dover Publications Price: $9.95 |
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This autobiography offers a rare inside look at the society surrounding a sultan's palace. Its author, a real-life princess in exile, recalls her vanished world of harems, slave trading, and court intrigues. The Midwest Book Review praised this book as "an engrossing memoir, offering a vivid portrait of 19th-century Arab and African life."
Reprint of the Doubleday, New York, 1907 edition.
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Table of Contents for Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
AUTHENTICITY OF THESE MEMOIRS PREFACE FAMILY HISTORY BET IL WATORO BET IL SAHEL FURTHER REMINISCENCES OF CHILDHOOD NATIONAL SINGULARITIES CEREMONIES FOR NEWLY BORN SCHOOL FEMALE FASHIONS THE SULTAN'S VOYAGE TO OMAN DEATH OF SEYYID SAÏD THE POSITION OF WOMAN IN THE EAST ARABIAN SUITORSHIP AND MARRIAGE SOCIAL CUSTOMS MAHOMETAN FESTIVALS MEDICAL TREATMENT SLAVERY HISTORY OF A DYNASTIC PLOT TERM OF RURAL RESIDENCE ELOPEMENT FROM ZANZIBAR ENGLISH DIPLOMACY VISIT TO THE OLD HOME