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	Harem (household) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Contrary to the common belief, harem is not necessarily a part of a palace and its inhabitants do not necessarily consist solely of women with whom the head of the household has a sexual relation.
		For example the Ottoman harem (the harem of the sultan's palace in the Ottoman Empire would contain several hundred women including wives, mistresses, the sultan's mother, daughters and other female relatives and eunuchs and slave girls to serve the aforementioned women.
		Harem is also the usual English translation of the Chinese language term hougong, 後宮—literally meaning "the palaces behind." Hougong are large Chinese royal palaces for the emperor's consorts and female attendants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harem_(household) (255 words)

	HAREM - LoveToKnow Article on HAREM
		The Indian harem system is also commonly known as pardah or purdah, literally the name of the thick curtains or blinds which are used instead of doors to separate the womens quarters from the rest of the house.
		Though the sultans household in modern times is by no means as numerous as it used to be, it is said that the harem of Abdul Hamid contained about 1000 women, all of whom were of slave origin.
		A harem woman is soon passe, and the lot of a woman past her youth, if she is divorced or a widow, is monotonous and empty.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HAREM.htm (2337 words)

	Harem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harem, a part of the household forbidden to male strangers
		Harem, an anime or manga story wherein one male character is surrounded by — often living with — several female characters
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harem (107 words)

	Harem
		Hence, Mecca and the surrounding area is a harem — a religious harem.
		While the harem was firmly established as an institution in the society and in individual families, it was spread with Islam to cover areas extending beyond the Middle East and into North Africa.
		Harems, and they are generally small, exist in societies as different as Saudi Arabia and Morocco.
	i-cias.com /e.o/harem.htm (357 words)

	Guide to Harem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The secrecy associated with the royal harem and the harems of upper and middle-class Ottoman houses aroused the keen curiosity of foreign travellers and artists who visited Ottoman Turkey, but their written accounts and pictures of the harem were based for the most part on hearsay.
		As the population of the harem increased from the end of the 16th century onwards, mezzanines and additional buildings were constructed containing bedrooms for the serving women and self-contained apartments for the wives of the sultan.
		In the royal harem, under the guidance of the sultn's mother or the principal officer of the harem household, a woman known as the chief treasurer, the girls were taught to read and write, play music, and the intricate rules of palace etiquette and protocol.
	www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr /~history/harem.html (901 words)

	Iranica.com - HAREM
		The women of the harem were kept in seclusion, guarded by eunuchs, and prevented from turning their frequent disputes into seditious plots.
		The following is an outline of the harem life of the Achaemenid epoch, which served as a model for subsequent periods.
		While still virgins, they were kept and groomed in the harem's "first house of women" (Esther 2.9), and trained as musicians, dancers and singers in order that they might entertain their king or the magnate lord at banquets or throughout the night (Aelian, Varia Historia, 12.1).
	www.iranica.com /articles/v11f6/v11f6070a.html (974 words)

	Wikinfo \| Harem
		The Arabic term harem means the private part of a household.
		In traditional Arab culture, this part of the household was forbidden to male strangers.
		We need more on ordinary Arab households vs. the polygamous households of the rich and powerful, children and child-rearing, the views of "the harem" as an exotic "other" concept in Orientalism
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Harem (191 words)

	All About Romance Novels - The Harem
		Simply defined, a harem is the area in a household where the women of the family live.
		Although all the harem women, from the mother of the Sultan to the lowest kitchen maid were technically slaves, they were not of equal rank, and rank was guarded jealously in the harem.
		The fate of the harem women when the old Sultan died and the new one came to the throne was a sad one.
	www.likesbooks.com /harem.html (1171 words)

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		However, with the advent of Islam, the veiling and seclusion of women into harems became more common.
		THE HAREM started on an index card and has been revised often; many have been added and many have been deleted.
		In any case, none are listed--or removed, for that matter--without the consent of another "sultana." This is an evolving, living, breathing list of men we adore and we are proud of it.
	www.geocities.com /theharem92 (189 words)

	harem. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The most famous harem, that of the sultans of Turkey, dates from the 15th cent.
		The sultan’s harem often contained several hundred women, all subject to the control of the sultan’s mother and guarded by eunuchs.
		Although the harem is rapidly disappearing in the 20th cent., there nevertheless are still some in existence in the more remote areas of the Muslim world.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ha/harem.html (205 words)

	cuno abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The imperial household in Istanbul was not only the home of the sultan, where he reproduced his dynasty, but also a school in which thousands of male and female slaves were trained either for service in the military-administrative elite or to be the wives of these state servants.
		As in the imperial household, also, the women trained in the viceregal harem and not among the few destined to become the consort of the Pasha or a prince were married to men in his service as a way of cementing the loyalty of these men.
		They did not violate the boundaries of harem culture as they were understood at the time, since the women conducted their activities from within the harem and remained hidden from the public gaze.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~mescha/famabstracts/cuno.html (8589 words)

	Zehara -- Belly dance information
		The word "harem" comes from the word "haram", which means "forbidden": men who were not part of the immediate family were forbidden to enter the women's quarters when they visited their friends.
		Men from outside the family were allowed to visit the men's side of the household, but the women's side was haram, forbidden, which is how it came to be named the harem.
		The intent was to protect the women and children of the household from inappropriate attentions by outsiders.
	www.zehara.co.uk /bdfactshareem.htm (863 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In this first-hand account of a harem in Cairo, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, followed by involvement in Egypt's nationalist struggle and feminist activism.
		In this first-hand account of the private world of a harem in colonial Cairo, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household.
		HAREM YEARS shows how a gifted and sensitive woman, brought up in seclusion but with a knowledge of French that opened a window onto European culture, eventually became aware of her own predicament and that of her sex and society.
	www.feministpress.org /onix?isbn=0935312706 (385 words)

	Secret garden: Topkapi Palace Harem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		royal harem and the harems of upper and middle-class Ottoman houses
		harem were based for the most part on hearsay.
		Mehmed IV (1648-1687), his harem and household were at the palace in
	www.thetravelforum.com /t201050.html (970 words)

	Reader's Theatre: Ottoman Harem
		Hurrem - - the new concubine in the Ottoman Harem of Sultan Suleyman
		They focus on their harems and the women of the harem distract the Sultans and in doing so get their heirs on the throne.
		Safya, Yazdirilabilir "The Harem in the Ottoman Empire A Speech for General Audience at the Anniversary of 700th Ottoman State." Ottoman Research Foundation.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/play/rharem33130519.htm (2119 words)

	Secret garden: Topkapi Palace Harem
		The word harem originates from the Arabic harim, comprising the concepts of secrecy, inviolability and sacrosanctness that pervade the very walls of this place and marked life here over the centuries that it was a closed book to strangers.
		The earliest parts of the harem quarters are the Golden Road, the sultn'sr private kitchen, and that section known as Eski Hasekiler.
		The 17th century Ottoman writer Evliya Celebi records that until the late 16th century the harem did not move to Topkapi Palace, although the sultans conducted their daily business there and often spent the night, going occasionally to the Old Palace to visit their wives and children.
	www.talkabouttravelling.com /group/alt.travel/messages/52824.html (951 words)

	HAREM - Online Information article about HAREM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		control of the sultana valide (who alone of the harem of her dead husband is not sent away to an older palace when her son succeeds), and owe her the most profound respect, even to the point of having to obtain permission to leave their own apartments.
		Though a woman may not be seen in the streets without the yashmak which covers her face except for her eyes, and does not leave her house except by her husband's permission, none the less in ordinary households the harem ladies frequently drive into the country and visit the shops and public See also:
		English women to enter the harems as companions, nurses and governesses.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HAN_HEG/HAREM.html (3505 words)

	harem on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Review: Features: Harem secrets laid bare Alev Croutier, whose grandmother lived in a Turkish harem, has based her new novel on her family's extraordinary history.
		KILLED BY HIS HAREM; He was omnipotent, with hundreds of concubines.
		SECRETS OF THE HAREM; A new TV series tells the story of the most ruthless concubine in history, a scheming seductress who slept her way to power.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/h1/harem.asp (649 words)

	PoserPros :: Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For women who had lots of time and not a lot to do, a long period of being pampered in the bath was a relaxing way to pass the day.
		The Harem Bath is an elegant reproduction an ancient harem bath room.
		The harem of the Sultan was abolished after the Ottoman empire fell, but it still lives on as a romantic fantasy.
	poserpros.daz3d.com /store/viewitem.php?selitem=2027 (332 words)

	Egyptian queens - Ancient Egyptian Royal Harem. Queen's Residence. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the private sections of the Royal Household were quarters devoted purely to the women of the Palace, including the first Queen, lesser wives and concubines.
		Presiding over all proceedings of the household would be the first queen, who was most likely to be of Royal birth, sometimes a half or full sister to Pharaoh.
		It is obvious that the Egyptian queens royal harem was an integral part of the palace’s economy and stability.
	www.ancientnile.co.uk /harem.php (351 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The book dispels many of the sensuous harem fantasies that Europeans and Americans have entertained about the mysterious East.
		It portrays the harem as simply a place where people live their day-to-day lives, where women take care of the household and raise the children.
		Tales of a Harem Girlhood By Fatima Mernissi.
	www.epinions.com /content_24837000836 (463 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - harem pants
		Harem, multiple wives of a Muslim household, or the living quarter reserved for such wives and other female members of a Muslim household.
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	encarta.msn.com /harem+pants.html (125 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Harem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Harem; all previous versions may be viewed here.
		They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Harem (224 words)

	harem
		the women in a Muslim household, including the mother, sisters, wives, concubines, daughters, entertainers, and servants.
		a group of women associated in any way with one man or household:
		Father joked that he had a harem of five daughters.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/harem (93 words)

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	www.arabsex.za.pl /harem/arab_harem.html (142 words)

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