Mount of knowledge, sword of eloquence
Subtitle: collected poems of an Ismaili Muslim scholar in Fatimid Egypt : a translation from the original Arabic of al-Muʼayyad al-Shīrāzī's Dīwān
By: translated by Mohamad Adra ; with an introduction by Kutub Kassam
Contributors: Adra, Mohamad; Kassam, Kutub; Institute of Ismaili Studies
Series: Ismaili texts and translations series (Institute of Ismaili Studies) -- 14
Publisher: I. B. Tauris; I. B. Tauris In Association With The Institute Of Ismaili Studies; Brand: I. B. Tauris in Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781848859135
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Based on original sources, this book questions the conventional wisdom that Mediterranean Muslim women are passive people subjected to the tyranny and misogyny of religion, society and male relatives. Encompassing everything from medieval love poetry to popular literary sources these studies bear witness to the fact that individual women of all social classes play pivotal roles in both the private domains of sociey and in the public realm."--Bloomsbury publishing.
Notes: Published in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-240).

Translated from Arabic.