Jane Hathaway

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Jane Hathaway is Associate Professor of Islamic and world history, Ohio State University.

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Books by Jane Hathaway

Beshir Agha

Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem

By Jane Hathaway

This book explores the life of el-Hajj Beshir Agha (ca. 1657-1746), the most powerful Chief Harem Eunuch in the history of the Ottoman Empire Enslaved in his native Ethiopia as a boy, then castrated in Egypt, el-Hajj Beshir became one of hundreds of East African eunuchs who inhabited the imperial...

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