That's so interesting, given the present intolerance for dissent by Muslims here in the Uk where I…

…mophobia, Muslims are often targeted and defamed on the basis of stereotypes about premodern Islam. I wrote The Persian Prison Poem in part to resist and undermine inaccurate stereotypes about Muslim society as a world that did not permit dissent.

Prison Poetry and Political Dissent

Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD

Aza Y. Alam

Mar 29, 2021

That's so interesting, given the present intolerance for dissent by Muslims here in the Uk where I live. I was fascinated to discover the poet-philosopher, Alzaadi of Syria and his poems both advocating distrust of religous folk and expressing an atheist sensibility.

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