The political, economic and social role of women in Iraq in the (second Abbasid Era)

Author:
Huda Ali Rumman Al-kaabi
Level:
Master
Field of study:
Islamic History
Language:
Arabic
Faculty:
Faculty of History
Year:
2022
Publisher:
URD Press
Supervisor(s):
Falah Al-Mansoori

The study clarified the impact of women in scientific and practical life, as many of them have been seeking and teaching knowledge, and others have supported science and scholars such as the women of the caliphs and their mothers.Professions and crafts, and the freedom to own money and be responsible for what they own without anyone having guardianship over them and their property, the importance lies in the fact that the topic includes important aspects of public life and their connection with each other and the influence of some on others on the political, economic and social level, and the importance of the topic lies in the scarcity of studies The Academy, which dealt with the topic of the role of women in the Abbasid era, according to the researcher’s knowledge, despite the importance of this topic.

As for the problem of the study, it stems from the fact that the women of the second Abbasid era were tyrannical in the government of Baghdad and Abbasid, which witnessed in the second Abbasid era riots in government affairs, after some women surrounded them, knowing that the role of women was not limited to their participation in political work, but in their social role Her interest in civic life, her economic role, her interest in urban projects, her determination to accumulate great wealth, her cultural role, by acquiring science, knowledge, literature, poetry, and her artistic role in singing and dancing, without neglecting the judicial role.

The original question lies in: What is the political, economic and social role of women in Iraq during the second Abbasid era? As for the original hypothesis, women in the second Abbasid era played prominent roles on the political, social and economic levels, as they accompanied and competed with men in public life, but had clear fingerprints.In different fields and situations, history bears witness to this, and women continued to enjoy these roles throughout the second Abbasid era, when women’s interference in politics, economics and social matters was a prominent feature in this era.

In his study, the researcher uses the historical research method, where he combined multiple narratives on the same topic, analyzed them, and relied on a number of sources and references.