Eighteenth-century Cairo prostitutes were organized as a guild

Evidence

Raymond says that in the eighteenth century prostitutes in Cairo were organized as a guild; André Raymond, Artisans et commerçants au Caire au XVIIIe siècle (Damascus: Institut français, 1973-74), II, p. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1278

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• CANDY: A fun odd historical fact: prostitutes in 18th-century Cairo had formal guild organization like other trades.
• XREF: Relates to Michel Foucault’s and other histories of sexuality and state regulation, and to the broader literature on guilds in Ottoman urban life.