The Scientific Role of the Wives of the Turkish Caliphs in the Abbasid Caliphate

Abstract

The Arab woman has advanced in her culture and knowledge, and what has affected her is what changes the accepted picture to clarify her mental ability, and indicate her intellectual activity. And she takes all her practical rights, and women participated in the scientific and intellectual renaissance witnessed by the cities of Iraq, especially Baghdad, during the Abbasid era. The Turkish woman in the Abbasid era had a great cultural role, especially since it was an era called development and prosperity. It was the era of cultural openness, where she participated in presenting and showing what served literature, society and the ancient Abbasid civilization. The position of women in these issues, especially the Turkish wives of the Abbasid caliphs, and what they contributed In cultural works focused on building schools, mosques, connections, libraries, and some Islamic buildings, and what is the right of these institutions in terms of endowments to provide sources of income in order to sustain them, and these institutions highlighted many scholars who came to Baghdad and worked in it or learned various sciences there