[5] The third rank harem women were slave-girls trained in singing, dancing and playing music to perform as entertainers.
[7] In 1122, there were six lady treasurers (khuzzan), and during the reign of al-Hafiz a woman, Sitt Ghazal, were appointed supervisor of the caliphal inkwell (dawa), an office otherwise always held by men.
[11] Slave women worked in royal workshops, arbab al-san'i min al-qusuriyyat, which manufactured clothing and food.
[13] The enslaved eunuchs managed the women of the harem, guarded them, informed them and reported on them to the Caliph, and acted as their link to the outside world.
[4] Ibn Muyassar described a hall of relaxation used by vizier al-Afdal with a line of mechanical mannequins (siwar) facing each other at the entrance: four depicting white slave girls made of camphor, and four depicting black slave girls made of amber, who bowed down when the vizier entered the room, and raised their heads when he sat down.