Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar

Emily Ruete was born in Zanzibar (in modern day Tanzania) as Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman. She was the youngest of the 36 children of Sayyid Said bin Sultan Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar and Oman. Her extraordinary life story is the subject of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar.

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Ruete, Emily

Memoirs

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Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar (Topics in World History)

"[A]n intriguing account of court life in an outpost of the Islamic empire in Africa." Journal of World History In 1844, Salamah bint Saïd was born into royalty of the sultanate of Zanzibar and Omar. She was the youngest out of Sayyid Said bin Sultan Al-Busaid’s thirty children and daughter of a Circassian concubine, and through her early years spent in a variety of great palaces she experienced vast wealth. This is the story of Saïd’s life, written after she had left Zanzibar and eloped with Rudolph Heinrich Ruete to Germany to begin life under her new name, Emily Ruete. From an early age she was witness to the intrigue and politics of the harem, even involving herself at the tender age of fifteen to the factional infighting and an attempted coup by her brother Barghash against another brother. But this is more than merely an interesting story of one Arabian princess’s life in East Africa, as Saïd provides a fascinating insight into the social and cultural history of Zanzibar. She writes on numerous topics from schooling to fashion, medical treatment to slavery, thus giving a vivid impression of when she lived. After she married Rudolph Ruete and converted to Christianity, they spent the rest of their lives in Hamburg. She wrote Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar in German in 1886. It was the first known autobiography of an Arabian woman. She died in 1924 in Germany at the age of 79. This edition was translated by Lionel Strachey and published in 1907. Strachey died in 1927.

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Emily Ruete was born in Zanzibar (in modern day Tanzania) as Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman. She was the youngest of the 36 children of Sayyid Said bin Sultan Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar and Oman. Her extraordinary life story is the subject of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar.This new digital edition of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar includes an image gallery.

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Strategy Six Pack 13 includes Thomas De Quincey’s classic study of Rome’s first leaders, The Caesars, two essays by Elbert Hubbard (on Patrick Henry and Anne Hutchinson), Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar by Emily Ruete and two American history classics, My Sixty Years on the Plains - Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William Thomas Hamilton and Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843 by Osborne Russell.

Strategy Six Pack 13: The Caesars, Patrick Henry, My Sixty Years on the Plains, Anne Hutchinson, A Princess from Zanzibar and Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains

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Russell, Osborne

Hubbard, Elbert

Hamilton, William Thomas

DE QUINCEY., THOMAS

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Memoirs of an Arabian Princess

Cosimo Inc

One of the most fascinating works to fall into obscurity almost immediately after its initial publication, this 1886 autobiography by EMILY RUETE (1844-1924)-born in Zanzibar as Salamah bint Said, a princess of that realm as well as of Oman-offers a surprising perspective on the experiences of women in the Arab world in the later 19th century. Translated by LIONEL STRACHEY (1864-1927) from the original Germany-Ruete settled in Europe after becoming a Christian-and first brought to readers of English in 1907-it gives us an intimate view on: • life in an Arabian household • the Arab love affair with horses • divorce in the East • ceremonies for newborn babies • female fashions in Arabia • the social position of women in the East • Muslin festivals • the author's escape to Europe • and much more. In this era of renewed contention between East and West, this captivating book allows us a new historical outlook on a still-secretive culture.

Leben im Sultanspalast: Memoiren aus dem 19. Jahrhundert

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Memoiren einer arabischen Prinzessin: Erster und Zweiter Band (German Edition)

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Princess Salme, daughter of Sa'id ibn Sultan, ruler of Oman and Zanzibar, was born in Zanzibar on August 30, 1844. In 1866 she fled to Aden where she was baptized with the Christian name Emily and where she married the German merchant Rudolph Heinrich Ruete. In Hamburg three children were born. Her husband died in 1870, and after that she lived in several cities in Germany. In 1885 and again in 1888 she went to Zanzibar. Between 1889 and 1914 she lived in Jaffa and Beirut, and afterwards again in Germany. She died in Jena in 1924. The present work contains a short biography of Princess Salme/Emily Ruete and of her son Rudolph Said-Ruete, a new English translation of her Memoirs, and an English version of her other writings, unpublished so far: Letters Home, Sequels to the Memoirs and Syrian Customs and Usages.

An Arabian Princess Between Two Worlds: Memoirs, Letters Home, Sequels to the Memoirs, Syrian Customs and Usages (Arab History and Civilization. Stu)

Salme, Sayyida

Van Donzel, E.

Brill Academic Pub

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