Her writings came out in a period of time where women in Egypt were realizing that they were being deprived of some of the rights that Islam granted them.

Taymur was one of the earliest Arab women to be alive while her poetry and other writings were recognized and published in modern times.

In this sincere effort, she was able to transform her very narrow social class rootes putting them into the service of the larger community.

[3]Although Taymur was born into an Egyptian Turco-Kurdish royal family[4] originally from Iraqi Kurdistan, she worked diligently for those who did not have a voice.

After the death of her daughter, father and husband, she returned to Egypt where she studied with female tutors on the subject of poetic composition.

[1] Taymur got married in 1854 when she was 14 to Mahmud Bey al-Islambuli, a Turkish notable, and left with her husband to Istanbul.

[8] Her father died in 1882, followed closely by the death of her husband in 1885, which prompted her to return to Egypt where she resumed her writing.

Her works came out at the time of a socioeconomic transformation of Egypt where women realized they were being deprived of the rights Islam gave them.