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 "id": "concept/ghulamiyyat",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "ghulamiyyat",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الغلاميات",
  "en": "The ghulamiyyat fashion"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الجواري المقدودات اللواتي اتخذتهن أم جعفر زبيدة لما رأت شغف ولدها الأمين بالخدم فعممت رؤوسهن وجعلت لهن الطرر والأصداغ والأقفية وألبستهن الأقبية والقراطق والمناطق حتى اشتبهن بالغلمان، فاتخذ الناس مثلهن وسموهن الغلاميات كما عند المسعودي {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 671-672}.",
  "en": "The boy-lookalike maids — cropped, turbaned and belted like lads — whom Zubayda dressed for al-Amin, a court fashion that spread to high and low and took the name ghulamiyyat {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p. 671-672}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [
  "period/abbasid-early"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "dress"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "social",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "مروج الذهب للمسعودي (ط الشركة العالمية للكتاب) ج2 ص 671–672",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-muruj-dhahab-batch-2"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/muruj-al-dhahab"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الغلاميات جوارٍ مقدودات اتخذتهن أم جعفر زبيدة، وسمّاهن الناس بهذا الاسم، بحسب المسعودي. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.671-672}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الخبر",
     "markdown": "رأت زبيدة شغف ولدها الأمين بالخدم، فعمّمت رؤوس الجواري وجعلت لهن الطرر والأصداغ والأقفية. وألبستهن الأقبية والقراطق والمناطق حتى اشتبهن بالغلمان. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.671-672}\n\nثم اتخذ الناس مثلهن، وسموهن الغلاميات. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.671-672}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ghulamiyyat",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The *ghulamiyyat* were close-cropped slave girls whom Umm Ja'far Zubayda kept, and people named them thus, according to al-Masudi. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.671-672}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The report",
     "markdown": "Zubayda saw her son al-Amin's passion for servants, so she had the girls' heads shaved and gave them forelocks, sideburns, and napes. She dressed them in tunics, shirts, and belts until they were mistaken for young men. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.671-672}\n\nThen people imitated her, and called them the *ghulamiyyat*. {cite:muruj-al-dhahab p.671-672}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ghulamiyyat",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "event/delegation-of-kinda",
  "event/sariyya-of-abd-al-rahman-ibn-awf-to-dumat-al-jandal",
  "person/muna-haydar",
  "work/thalj-pamuk"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}