La mujer como estrategia retórica: Sawda bint Umara ante el califa Muawiya en El collar extraordinario de Ibn Abd Rabbihi

Fadwa Malti-Douglas ha dedicado varios estudios y libros al género de adab y en su Woman s Body, Woman's Word (1991)2 afirma que: wit plays a pivotal role in an intricate system of exchange that governs the anecdotes. Por otro lado, para Nancy Roberts es importante recordar que todo lo que nos ha llegado en literatura clásica fue compilado por escribas hombres y propone que "when one encounters texts in which women are given an authoritative voice, or even found to be rebuking and castigating men - and that in the name of Islam - the question arises as to what purpose the male 'scriptor' or 'redactor' had in mind when recording such accounts" (52). The latter, multisubject in nature with semiotically significant organizations, most often arrange their contents according to a social hierarchy, in which women invariably find themselves near the bottom of the ladder, toward the end of the work" (Malti-Douglas, Woman's Body 29).13 No se quiere negar con lo anterior el hecho que hubo mujeres en la historia del Islam que adquirieron poder y fama. [...]there is a syntax position; the book of women is the last of the ten" (Structures 14).