La femme de l'entourage des califes abbassides
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Abstract EN:
The free arabe women and the djawari have became opponent fighting for being the better. Culturally speaking, this conflit between two categories of women has been benefic, but is also generated many dramas which led at time the harem to the chaos. Despite this fierce fight, those two groups of women lived together and bore each other. Those of the aragbe women and djawari who had children were anxious and suspicious of the future of their progenitures, that's how they took part in political disputes and manoeuvred while using their feminity, their trickey and their intellegence. Their doing couldn't but influance the going of the events. The califs could only go through those manoeuvre and sometimes afford to react according to to their own personnality. As a matter of fact, women living in the environment of the abbassid caliphs have always known how to impose their personnality. Sometimes they were sweet (zubayda) some other times they were dictatorial, (al-khayzuran) or quiet, or even machiave lic. The abbasside women was ideniably clever.
Abstract FR:
8les femmes arabes libres et les djawari sont devenues des adversaires luttant pour qui brillera le plus et le mieux. Ce conflit entre les deux categories de femmes, a ete benefique du point de vue culturel. Mais il a ete aussi a l'origine de beaucoup de drames qui plongerent quelquefois le harem dans le chaos. Cette lutte feroce n'empechait cependant pas les femmes arabes et les djawari de co-habiter et de se supporter les unes les autres. Les femmes arabes et les djawari qui etaient devenues meres consideraient l'avenir de leur progenitures avec angoisse et mefiance c'est ainsi qu'elles furent melees a des litiges politiques. Elle manoeuvraient en jouant de leur feminite, leur ruse et leur intelligence pour assurer l'avenir de leur rejeton ou leur protege. Leurs agissements, avaient des retentissements cert -ains sur le deroulement des evenements. Les califes ne pouvaient que subir les consequences de telles manoeuvres et parfois reagir selon la personnalite dont ils jouissaient chacun. En fait la femme de l'entourage des califes abbassides a toujours su imposer sa personnalite. Tantot, elle fut douce (zubayda) tantot autoritaire (al-khayzuran), tantot sage (buran). La femme abbasside faisait preuve d'une intelligence indeniable.