diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py
index c2b404ca49..04733e021a 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ def rewrite_links(root, link_repl_func, resolve_base_href=False):
         except UnicodeDecodeError:
             continue
 
-        if tag == XHTML('style') and el.text and \
+        if tag in (XHTML('style'), SVG('style')) and el.text and \
                 (_css_url_re.search(el.text) is not None or '@import' in
                         el.text):
             stylesheet = parser.parseString(el.text, validate=False)
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/cascade.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/cascade.py
index c6b6bc97d0..fb163e24f4 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/cascade.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/polish/cascade.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from tinycss.fonts3 import parse_font_family, serialize_font_family
 
 from calibre import as_unicode
 from calibre.ebooks.css_transform_rules import all_properties
-from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import OEB_STYLES, XHTML, css_text
+from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import OEB_STYLES, SVG, XHTML, css_text
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.normalize_css import DEFAULTS, normalizers
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.stylizer import INHERITED, media_ok
 from calibre.utils.resources import get_path as P
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ def resolve_styles(container, name, select=None, sheet_callback=None):
 
     process_sheet(html_css_stylesheet(container), 'user-agent.css')
 
-    for elem in root.iterdescendants(XHTML('style'), XHTML('link')):
+    for elem in root.iterdescendants(XHTML('style'), SVG('style'), XHTML('link')):
         if elem.tag.lower().endswith('style'):
             if not elem.text:
                 continue
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/stylizer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/stylizer.py
index ff8178ab79..fdb5e44195 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/stylizer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/stylizer.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from tinycss.media3 import CSSMedia3Parser
 
 from calibre import as_unicode, force_unicode
 from calibre.ebooks import unit_convert
-from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import CSS_MIME, OEB_STYLES, XHTML, XHTML_NS, urlnormalize, xpath
+from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import CSS_MIME, OEB_STYLES, SVG, XHTML, XHTML_NS, urlnormalize, xpath
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.normalize_css import DEFAULTS, normalizers
 from calibre.utils.resources import get_path as P
 from polyglot.builtins import iteritems
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ class Stylizer:
         parser = CSSParser(fetcher=self._fetch_css_file,
                 log=logging.getLogger('calibre.css'))
         for elem in style_tags:
-            if (elem.tag == XHTML('style') and elem.get('type', CSS_MIME) in OEB_STYLES and media_ok(elem.get('media'))):
+            if (elem.tag in (XHTML('style'), SVG('style')) and elem.get('type', CSS_MIME) in OEB_STYLES and media_ok(elem.get('media'))):
                 text = elem.text if elem.text else ''
                 for x in elem:
                     t = getattr(x, 'text', None)
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py
index 214e06e55a..fae357e8d3 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from lxml import etree
 
 from calibre import guess_type
 from calibre.ebooks import unit_convert
-from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import CSS_MIME, OEB_STYLES, SVG_NS, XHTML, XHTML_NS, XPath, barename, css_text, namespace
+from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import CSS_MIME, OEB_STYLES, SVG, SVG_NS, XHTML, XHTML_NS, XPath, barename, css_text, namespace
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.stylizer import Stylizer
 from calibre.utils.filenames import ascii_filename, ascii_text
 from calibre.utils.icu import numeric_sort_key
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ class CSSFlattener:
                and safe_lower(node.get('rel', 'stylesheet')) == 'stylesheet' \
                and safe_lower(node.get('type', CSS_MIME)) in OEB_STYLES:
                 node.getparent().remove(node)
-            elif node.tag == XHTML('style') \
+            elif node.tag in (XHTML('style'), SVG('style')) \
                  and node.get('type', CSS_MIME) in OEB_STYLES:
                 node.getparent().remove(node)
         href = item.relhref(href)