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A nasib (elegy) written by the Egyptian father Abu Hayyan (born 1256) for his daughter Nudar (born 1301) praises the talent and knowledge of his scholar-poet daughter and is one example of how literature provides evidence that women of the elite classes were educated:
My soul turned
away from this world
after Nudar settled
in the moist earth,So my ear is deaf
when someone speaks;
my eye stares
far away.How can I mind
whom I'm with
when I can't see
Nudar's shining face?No. And I can't hear
her voice
whose finest words
were pearls.If strung in verse
they'd be the blazing stars;
if scattered in prose,
they'd be the brightest blossomsThough she may be veiled
from my eye,
still her figure
is etched in my heart;I've stayed by the grave
where she settled,
where...
This section contains 3,963 words (approx. 14 pages at 300 words per page) |
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