The role of female slaves in the political and social life in the Abbasid state (132-656 AH / 749-1258 AD)

Abstract

The Abbasid state is one of the most important Islamic states that reached the golden age in all aspects, especially the political and social aspects. He gave his life a political and social aspect. This research paper aims to address the role of female slave girls in the political and social life of the Abbasid state, while showing the skills of female slave girls that differ according to their nationalities. The nature of the subject requires the use of the historical approach and the inductive approach of historical, literary and linguistic accounts, using the method of analysis and conclusion as possible, in order to provide an academic scientific study. Among the most important results of the research: there are many female slave girls who played a political and social role, as they became the mothers of the caliphs and became the wives of the caliphs, like the female slave, and also controlled many of the decisions of the Abbasid state in the installation and dismissal of the caliphs, ministers, judges, and others, as well as their refusal to give the mandate of the covenant, as happened For Al-Hadi bin Al-Mahdi, and the slave girls in the Abbasid state participated in many plots of the caliph's harem, in which many women met their deaths.