Slave concubines

Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq and winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

In Greek mythology, Cassandra, also spelled Kassandra or Casandra, (; , , or referred to as Alexandra; ) was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo and fated by him to utter true prophecies, but never be believed. Cassandra lived through the Trojan War and survived the sack of the city, but was murdered by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus when Agamemnon brought her to Mycenae as a pallake.

According to the Book of Genesis, Hagar is an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son through Hagar, Ishmael, became the progenitor of the Ishmaelites, generally taken to be the Arabs. Various commentators have connected her to the Hagrites (sons of Agar), perhaps claiming her as their eponymous ancestor. Hagar is alluded to, although not named, in the Quran, and Islam considers her Abraham's second wife.

One of Muhammad's concubines

The tenth wife of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad

Egyptian Mamluk Sultana d.1257

Muhammad's concubine or twelfth wife (d. 631)

thumb|Bilhah - detail from c:File:Rachel Giving Bilhah to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series MET AR1420.jpg|Flemish tapestry made around 1550, depicting Rachel giving Bilhah to Jacob.|362x362px Bilhah ( "unworried", Standard Hebrew: Bilha, Tiberian Hebrew: Bīlhā) is a woman mentioned in the Book of Genesis. describes her as Laban's handmaiden (), who was given to Rachel to be her handmaid on Rachel's marriage to Jacob. When Rachel failed to have children, Rachel gave Bilhah to Jacob like a wife to bear him children. Bilhah gave birth to two sons, whom Rachel claimed as her own and named Dan

In the Book of Genesis, Zilpah ( Zīlpā, meaning uncertain) was Leah's handmaid whom Leah gave to Jacob like a wife to bear him children (). Zilpah gave birth to two sons, whom Leah claimed as her own and named Gad and Asher ().

Empress of Awadh

noble title for wives of Ottoman sultans

The wife of Hassan ibn Thabit

wife of the Caliph al-Hakam

thumb|right|Phinehas slaying Zimri and Cozbi, by Joos van Winghe Cozbi or Kozbi (, tr. Kozbī) is mentioned in in the Hebrew Bible as "[the] daughter of Zur", a prominent Midianite, and a wife or concubine of the Israelite Zimri, son of Salu. The Lord objected to the mixing of the Israelite people with the local Midianites, and the resultant worshiping of Baal, and instructed Moses to slay all the Israelites who had worshiped Baal.

Khediva of Egypt

female companion of Muhammad of Roman origin

concubine of Aurangzeb

Concubine of Aurangzeb

concubine of the Sultan of Grenada

fourth wife of khedive Ismail Pasha

slave singer and poet of Umayyad period

Consort of Ibrahim Pasha and Walida of Khedive Isma'il

Classical Islamic law allowed men to have sexual intercourse with their female slaves.

first concubine of Safavid Shah Abbas II

Muslim perspectives on retaining concubines

third wife of khedive Ismail Pasha

wife of Chinggis Khan

Royal consort of Shah Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (r. 1789–97) then Shah Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1797–1834)

Lampegia () was a medieval Aquitanian noblewoman.

Wife of Mohamed ben Abdellah of Morocco

Rasad (; ) was a slave concubine who, as the queen-mother of the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir Billah, became the virtual regent of Egypt between 1044 and 1071. The name Rasad literally means "observed".

Iraqi Yazidi kidnapping victim of ISIS

slave and concubine who became a wife

Slave concubine and later wife of Muhammad IV of Morocco

Al-Karakiya (fl. 1260), was a qiyan poet and musician, active in Mamluk Sultanate Egypt.

slaves and concubines in Islam

Egyptian consort

princess Consort of Egypt

ancient Indian figure

consort of khedive Ismail Pasha

non-elite-commoner-women slavery in Ottoman times

slave concubine

Consort to Khedive Isma'il Pasha of Egypt

Walida Pasha of Egypt (died 1871)

Main consort of Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah