Sasanian Persia

The Abbasid court at Baghdad explicitly modelled its administrative structure, including the office of vizier and much of its ceremonial protocol, on Sasanian precedent (Kennedy, 2016), and the same channels that transmitted Persian statecraft also transmitted Persian and Hellenistic household literature that took elite female seclusion for granted as a marker of status. The Sasanian succession crisis following Khosrow II's overthrow in 628, including the brief reign of the empress Buran, is also the independently attested historical occasion behind Sahih al-Bukhari 4425 (Pourshariati, 2008).