ID - 11282903 TI - An Arabian Princess Between Two Worlds : Memoirs, Letters Home, Sequels to the Memoirs, Syrian Customs and Usages AU - Salme, Sayyida AU - Ruete, Emily AU - Donzel, E.J. van PY - 1992 VL - 3 SN - 09252908 SN - 9004096159 9789004096158 9789004508798 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Princesses KW - -Royalty KW - Courts and courtiers KW - Biography KW - Ruete, Emilie KW - Zanzibar KW - -History KW - -Princesses KW - -Biography KW - Ruete, Emilie, KW - History KW - Royalty KW - Said-Ruete, Emily, KW - Ruete, Emily, KW - Ruete, E. KW - Ruete, KW - Salme bint Said, KW - Bint Said, Salme, KW - Salamah bint Saïd, KW - Bint Saïd, Salamah, KW - Salme, Sayyida, KW - Sālimah bint Saʻīd ibn Sulṭān, KW - سليمة بنت السيد سعيد بن سلطان KW - Princesses - Tanzania - Zanzibar - Biography KW - Ruete, Emilie, - 1844-1924 KW - Zanzibar - History - To 1890 KW - Journeys KW - letters KW - Muslim women KW - life stories UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11282903 AB - 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of her son Rudolph Said-Ruete, a new English translation of her Memoirs , and an English version of her other writings, unpublished so far: Letters Home , Sequels to the Memoirs and Syrian Customs and Usages. ER -