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Layla al-Akhyaliyya: A Feminist Poet by Ilhan Bilgu is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses LaylÁ al-Akhyaliyya, a female poet from the Umayyad period in Arabia. It summarizes that while there was no concept of feminism in the modern sense at that time, LaylÁ can be seen as a feminist in the way she broke social norms for women by becoming a tribal poet, composing elegies and political poetry like male poets. The document then analyzes the scattered biographical accounts of LaylÁ that contain both factual information and fictional elements, and discusses the two narrative p
- Author
- Ilhan Bilgu
- Language
- EN