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Consorts of the Caliphs James A. McDonough Entrepreneurs began to transform theConsorts of the Caliphs is a seventh thirteenth century compilation of anecdotes about thirty eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving texts by Ibn al Sa'i (d. 674 1276). Ibn al Sa'i was a prolific Baghdadi scholar who chronicled the academic and political elites