Why is Khaizuran, the traveler in this chapter, so important to historians?
a. Finding sources written by women is unusual.
b. She tells what a slave's life was like in the house of a Muslim caliph.
c. She represents a small Muslim sect about which little is known.
d. Much can be learned from her about life in a harem.
e. Sparse history of the ordinary classes and of women is available to historians.
e
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