Class of women entertainers in the pre-modern Islamic world
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Qiyān (Arabic: قِيان, Arabic:[qi'jæːn]; singular qayna, Arabic: قَينة, Arabic:['qɑjnæh]) were a social class of women, trained as entertainers, which existed in the pre-modern Islamic world. The term has been used for women who were both free, including some of whom came from nobility, and non-free women.[1] It has been suggested that "the geisha of Japan are perhaps the most comparable form of socially institutionalized female companionship and entertainment for male patrons, although, of course, the differences are also myriad".[2][3]
Historically, the qiyān flourished under the Umayyad Caliphate, the Abbasid Caliphate, and in Al-Andalus.[4]
^Reynolds 2017, p. 79-80.
^Reynolds 2017, p. 100-21.
^Fuad Matthew Caswell, The Slave Girls of Baghdad: The 'Qiyān' in the Early Abbasid Era (London: I. B. Tauris, 2011), p. 1.
^Schlein, Deborah Joanne. "The Talent and The Intellect: The Qayna's Application of Skill in the Umayyad and 'Abbasid Royal Courts". etd.library.emory.edu.
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