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The world of female slaves and male servants was linked to political life in the Arab Islamic civilization in its various eras, as a result of the relationship of an important group of this group with the people of politics and government. It is known that the actual presence of female slaves was closely linked to time and place, as female slaves of the Abbasid era in the Levant and the Umayyad era in Andalusia were more influential. Among the masters of the rest of the eras, as in the middle of the Abbasid era, large numbers of female slaves appeared within the Abbasid court, serving the wife of the caliph, the caliph personally, or the mother of the caliph, and in In some cases, they were all present in the Caliph's palace together.
The roles of concubines in palaces were numerous and varied according to the diversity of historical eras, but the concubine, who combined everything that culture wanted in a female, was the only one who was able to immortalize her name in history books, as culture wanted women to be beautiful, obedient, fertile, and weak in front of men, not A life for her without him, and the prevailing culture wanted to make the man submissive in front of this type of female slaves, weak in the face of their tears, and handing over the reins of his life to them, so he was This is the key to the intervention of women, whether they were concubines or mothers, in the world of politics.