Beshir Agha: Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem

Year 2021, Issue: 15, 181 - 184, 30.06.2021

İlhan Zengin

Abstract

Jane Hathaway isa a professor of history at the Ohio State University and is a very proficient in Egyptian history of Ottoman period and imperial eunuchs. She has many books, articles and papers written on these topics. With this book she wrote, she made an important contribution to the literature about Beshir Agha who was the most powerful harem eunuch of the Ottoman harem. There are no noteworthy works written on the harem eunuchs in Turkish. In this regard, the translation of the book is also important.

Keywords

Beşir Ağa, Harem, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu

References

• Jane Hathaway. Beshir Agha: Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem. Oneworld Publications, Oxford, 2005.