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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of her son Rudolph Said-Ruete, a new English translation of her Memoirs, and an English version of her other writings, unpublished so far: Letters Home, Sequels to the Memoirs and Syrian Customs and Usages.
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of her son Rudolph Said-Ruete, a new English translation of her Memoirs, and an English version of her other writings, unpublished so far: Letters Home, Sequels to the Memoirs and Syrian Customs and Usages.
Price: $398.00
Pages: 550
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Arab History and Civilization
Publication Date:
01 December 1992
ISBN: 9789004096158
Format: Other
'Cet ouvrage remarquable et agréable à lire sera désormais indispensable à tout historien de cette région d'Afrique.'
J.-P. L, Mideo.
'The volume has been produced to the high standard to be expected of this publisher and is lavishly illustrated. It is useful to read, as offering a different perspective from these memoirs.'
C.F. Beckingham, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1994.
'...van Donzel's richly annotated translation is the fullest to date, comprising not only the memoirs themselves, but Ruete's sequel to the memoirs and some important miscellania...The enlarged edition is useful to social historians of the Middle East, historians of colonialism, and, because it is conveniently excerptable, suitable reading for students, particularly in that still thinly covered era of Middle Eastern women's history, where primary, inside sources by women are so scarce.'
Billie Melman, International Journal Middle Eastern Studies, 1995.
'Ihr exemplarischer Wert besteht nich zuletzt in der sorgfältigen Darstellung der angeführten Belege.'
Ludmila Hanisch, Anthropos, 1994.
'...un véritable trésor d'informations.'
Randi Deguilhem, Bulletin d'Études Orientales.
'Rarely is a reviewer so fortunate as to receive a book which is such sheer pleasure to read. Richly illustrated, beautifully produced...The book should be required reading for all those interested in the Middle East, in Muslims in the West, in ethnography, and in translational phenomena in general. E. van Donzel and E.J. Brill must be congratulated on producing this exciting and first-rate volume.'
Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1996.
'Ein in all seinen Teilen sehr lesenswertes, historisch, vor allem dank van Donzels gründlicher Recherchen, höchst aufschlußreiches Buch!'
Wiebke Walther, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1996.
J.-P. L, Mideo.
'The volume has been produced to the high standard to be expected of this publisher and is lavishly illustrated. It is useful to read, as offering a different perspective from these memoirs.'
C.F. Beckingham, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1994.
'...van Donzel's richly annotated translation is the fullest to date, comprising not only the memoirs themselves, but Ruete's sequel to the memoirs and some important miscellania...The enlarged edition is useful to social historians of the Middle East, historians of colonialism, and, because it is conveniently excerptable, suitable reading for students, particularly in that still thinly covered era of Middle Eastern women's history, where primary, inside sources by women are so scarce.'
Billie Melman, International Journal Middle Eastern Studies, 1995.
'Ihr exemplarischer Wert besteht nich zuletzt in der sorgfältigen Darstellung der angeführten Belege.'
Ludmila Hanisch, Anthropos, 1994.
'...un véritable trésor d'informations.'
Randi Deguilhem, Bulletin d'Études Orientales.
'Rarely is a reviewer so fortunate as to receive a book which is such sheer pleasure to read. Richly illustrated, beautifully produced...The book should be required reading for all those interested in the Middle East, in Muslims in the West, in ethnography, and in translational phenomena in general. E. van Donzel and E.J. Brill must be congratulated on producing this exciting and first-rate volume.'
Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1996.
'Ein in all seinen Teilen sehr lesenswertes, historisch, vor allem dank van Donzels gründlicher Recherchen, höchst aufschlußreiches Buch!'
Wiebke Walther, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 1996.