The Chapters on Women in Two Adab Encyclopaedias from the Mamluk Period

What is it about?

We study in this paper the chapters devoted to women in general and to female figures (female singers) in two encyclopaedic works of the Mamluk Period of Arabic Pre-Modern Literature (13th-16th centuries). We will analyse the content of these chapters, their focus, the materials from which they are constructed and their objectives within the ensemble of the works with similar features. We will also be looking at the moral and intellectual qualities that configure the portrayal of women in these books. The final aim of all this is to obtain results to add to those that already exist, with a view to defining the female character types in this literature, the topics that make women visible in it and their relationship with male characters in the stories.

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