Title: Mount of knowledge, sword of eloquence
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.
Subjects: Egyptian literature, translations into english, Translations into English, Arabic poetry, Arabic Islamic poetry, Poetry by individual poets