This critical anthology presents the poems of more than 200 Arabic women poets active from the 600s through the 1400s CE. It marks the first appearance in English translation for many of these poems.
This critical anthology presents the poems of more than 200 Arabic women poets active from the 600s through the 1400s CE. It marks the first appearance in English translation for many of these poems.
Wessam Elmeligi is Assistant Professor NTT at the Department of Classical Mediterranean and Middle East at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Associate Professor at the English Department, the Faculty of Education, Damanhur University, Egypt. With a PhD in literary theory, his research interests include comparative literature, narratology, psychoanalysis, gender and women's studies, visual analysis of film and art, digital humanities, as well as translation. He has published articles and book chapters on Naguib Mahfouz, Radwa Ashour and the modern Arabic novel, Bernard Shaw and Arabic adaptations of the English theatre, and the Arabian Nights. He has also written and illustrated two graphic novels, Y&Y and Jamila.
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Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Writing a Critical Anthology of Women Poets in Translation2. Poets of the Pre-Islamic Period Abla bint Khalid at-TamimiyyaAd-Däjä bint WahbAl-Basus bint Munqidh al-BikriyyaAl-Fari a bint Mu awiya al-QushairiyyaAl-Jaidä bint Zahir al-ZubaidiyyaAl-Khansä bint Zuhair bin Abi SalmaAn-Nawwar al-JulAsmä al-MariyyaAs-Sulaka Umm as-SulaikBarra bint Abdu-l-Mu alib äiya al-HilaliyyaDahknatus bint Luqai Dijaja bint afwanFäima bint Murr al-Khuth amiyyaFari a al-MuriyyaHazila al-JudaisiyyaHind al-JuläiyyaHind bint al-Khus usaina bint Jabir bint Bujair al- IjliIbnat ä- äak bin Sufyan ( abiba bint ä- äak)Jalila bint Murra ash-ShaibaniyyaJariyat Humam ibn MurraKarma bint il Laila al- AfifaLaila bint MirdasManfusa bint Zaid al-KhailRai a bint A iyyaRai a bint Jadhl ä- äan afiyya al-Bahiliyyäafiyya bint Thälaba al-ShaibaniyyaSubai a bint al-A abSu da al-AsadiyyaSu da al-LakhmiyyaSulaima bint al-MuhalhalSumayya Zawjat Shaddad al- Absi ariqaTumäir b
