The word harem, referring to a women's part of a dwelling, and especially to its female occupants, originated in which ethnic people?
Harem courts had a harem, where the ruler’s wives and concubines lived with female attendants, and eunuchs. South Asian traditions of female seclusion, called "purdah", may have been influenced by Islamic customs, but the practice of segregation by gender predates the Islamic invasions of India. The practice of female seclusion is not exclusive to Islam, but the English word harem denotes the domestic space reserved for women in Muslim households. The harem system first became fully institutionalized in the Islamic world under the Abbasid caliphate. Some scholars believe that Islamic culture adopted the custom of secluding women from the Byzantine Empire
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