The image of woman before Islam in the Moalaghat Sab Hossein Mohtadi

Abstract

     Moalaghat Sab, in Arabic literature, are the elegiac poems which have been known as the masterpiece of the Arabic literature before Islam. Writers and text-researchers have studied these poems from different aspects. The most obvious of it, is the declarative and verbal elegances or fluency and eloquence. Some have studied them from direction of their subject. The main question is what the most important subjects that have been recited abut woman are. The authors of this article have tried to study these subject by using descriptive and analytic methods:  social personality of woman, the value and the place of woman, intolerance and enthusiasm toward woman, description of beauties of woman, kind of clothing and jewels in Moalaghat. If elegiac poems have been recited about the appearance of woman and if poets have material viewpoint toward woman, it originated from their environment. They also have viewpoints beyond appearance. Like Amr the son of Kolsoom who have defended from position and place of woman the more complete beautifully. Despite of poet’s material viewpoint toward woman, they were so prejudiced in deffence from woman at the time of war or indignity. They also could  tolerate any disrepute and humiliation