Mahbuba (singer)

'''Mahbuba''' was a 9th-century slave entertainer in the Abbasid Caliphate.<ref>{{cite book | title=The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, AD 500–AD 1420 | editor1= Craig Perry | editor2=Stanley L. Engerman | editor2-link=Stanley Engerman | editor3=David Richardson | author=Craig Perry | chapter=Slavery and agency in the Middle Ages | page=248-9 }}</ref><ref name="WWH">{{cite encyclopedia | author=John Haag | title=Mahbuba (fl. 9th c.) | url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mahbuba-fl-9th-c | editor1=Anne Commire | editor1-link=Anne Commire | encyclopedia=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia | year=1999 | access-date=21 August 2025 | via=Encyclopedia.com }}</ref>

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==Further reading== * Ibn al-Sāʿī, ''Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad''. Ed. Shawkat M. Toorawa, NYU Press, 2015, pp.76-83.

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