البغاء في القاهرة خلال العصر العثماني (1517-1798م)‎

الملخص EN

There were several economical, social and security factors which helped the spread of prostitution during the Ottoman age.

Among those factors was poverty and the weakness of religious culture.

In addition to the divorce cases which pushed some of the women divorcees to go along this road.

Also, the complicity of some of the security men and their covering up of the prostitutes and their aides.

There appeared two forms of prostitution: First: legal prostitution which the central administration allocated certain centers for it to limit it geographically.

The other form was in different places in the Cairo districts.

Concerning the punishment for prostitution, it was derived from the Islamic sharia such as flogging… etc.

This in addition to the other punishments such as libel, dragging in the streets and deforming the prostitutes.

There were also exaggerated punishments such as hanging to limit this dangerous phenomena.