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| Title: | Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
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| Author: | Emily Said-Ruete |
| ISBN: | 0856921475 : 9780856921476 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 135x195mm |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Weight: | .318 Kg. |
| Published: | Four Corners (East-West Publications) - January 1996 |
| List Price: | 9.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Biography: royalty: Womens studies |
Originally published in 1888, this is the first known autobiography of an Arabian woman, and the only known autobiography of an Arabian princess. Set in mid-nineteenth century Zanzibar, where Arab and African cultures met, it provides a view no official account could possibly reveal, into the intrigues of court life, the struggles for political power, and the world of the harem. For the love of Heinrich Ruete, a young German consulate official, Princess Salme bint Said chose to forsake, at the risk of death, her privileged place in a Muslim society. In 1886 they fled to the West, where tragically, three years later he died. She remained in Germany with their three children, and there, in a characteristically lively style, wrote of her experience.
