Tamam KahnTamam Kahn has have been writing about women of seventh century Arabia for more than eighteen years. As a poet with a universal Sufi background outside formal academia, a woman who has led groups to sacred sites in Syria, Turkey, South East Asia and orth Africa she is just the person to bring the women of Muhammad s family forward through poetry and stories. Her first book: Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad, won an International Book Award in 2011 and is translated and published in Indonesia. She presented this subject in bookstores in the US, for poetry and spiritual gatherings in Germany, England, Turkey, Ecuador, and New Zealand; for High School Students, university classes, and graduate students in Islamic Studies; on TV, radio, and to The Sidi Chiker World Meetings of Tassawuf Affiliates in Marrakech, Morocco in 2009 as a guest of the Cultural Minister to the king. Her poetry is recognized and applauded by accomplished poets such as Coleman Barks, Fred Chappell, Marilyn Hacker and Annie Finch. A tenth generation American whose roots go back our founding fathers (and mothers), Tamam Kahn is married to Shabda Kahn, the spiritual director (Pir) of the Sufi Ruhaniat International, an organization with outreach in 50 countries. Read More Read Less