The Poetry of Arab Women: from the Pre-Islamic Age to Andalusia

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: writing a critical anthology of women poets in translation
2	Poets of the pre-Islamic period
	1	ʿAbla bint Khālid at-Tamīmiyya
	2	Ad-Daʿjāʾ bint Wahb
	3	Al-Basūs bint Munqidh al-Bikriyya
	4	Al-Fāriʿa bint Muʿāwiya al-Qushairiyya
	5	Al-Jaidāʾ bint Zāhir al-Zubaidiyya
	6	Al-Khansāʾ bint Zuhair bin Abī Sulmā
	7	An-Nawwār al-Jul
	8	Asmāʾ al-Mariyya
	9	As-Sulaka Umm as-Sulaik
	10	Bārra bint ʿAbdu-l-Muṭṭalib
	11	Ḍāḥiya al-Hilāliyya
	12	Dahknatūs bint Luqaiṭ
	13	Dijāja bint Ṣafwān
	14	Fāṭima bint Murr al-Khuthʿamiyya
	15	Fāriʿa al-Muriyya
	16	Hazīla al-Judaisiyya
	17	Hind al-Julāḥiyya
	18	Hind bint al-Khus
	19	Ḥusaina bint Jābir bint Bujair al-ʿIjlī
	20	Ibnat aḍ-Ḍaḥāk bin Sufyān (Ḥabība bint aḍ-Ḍaḥāk)
	21	Jalīla bint Murra ash-Shaibāniyya
	22	Jāriyat Humām ibn Murra
	23	Karma bint Ḍilʿ
	24	Lailā al-ʿAfīfa
	25	Lailā bint Mirdās
	26	Manfūsa bint Zaid al-Khail
	27	Raiṭa bint ʿĀṣiyya
	28	Rayṭa bint Jadhl aṭ-Ṭaʿān
	29	Ṣafiyya al-Bāhiliyya
	30	Ṣafiyya bint Thaʿlaba al-Shaibāniyya
	31	Subaiʿa bint al-Aḥab
	32	Suʿdā al-Asadiyya
	33	Suʿdā al-Lakhmiyya
	34	Sulaimā bint al-Muhalhal
	35	Sumayya Zawjat Shaddād al-ʿAbsī
	36	Ṭāriqa
	37	Tumāḍir bint ash-Sharīd as-Salmiyya
	38	ʿUfaira bint ʿAffān al-Judaisiyya
	39	Ukht al-Aswad bin Ghaffār (Ghafīra bint Ghaffār)
	40	Umaima bint ʿAbdu-l-Muṭṭalib
	41	Umāma bint Dhī-l-Iṣbaʿ
	42	Umāma bint Kulaib at-Taghlibiyya
	43	Umm Abī Judāba
	44	Umm aḍ-Ḍaḥāk al-Muḥāribiyya
	45	Umm al-Aghar bint Rabīʿa at-Taghlibiyya
	46	Umm aṣ-Ṣarīḥ al-Kindiyya
	47	Umm Mūsā al-Kilābiyya
	48	Umm Nāshira at-Taghlibiyya
	49	Umm Thawāb al-Huzāniyya
	50	ʿUmra bint al-Khunābis at-Taghlibiyya
	51	ʿUtba bint ʿAfīf
	52	Wahība bint ʿAbdu-l-ʿUzzā
	53	Zainab bint Farwa at-Tamīmiyya
	54	Zarqāʾ al-Yamāma
3	Crossover poets
	1	ʿAfrāʾ bint ʿUqāl al-ʿUdhriyya
	2	Al-Khansāʾ
	3	Arwā bint ʿAbdu-l-Muṭṭalib
	4	Ash-Shaimāʾ bint al-Ḥarth as-Saʿdiyya
	5	Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr
	6	Durra al-Hāshimiyya
	7	Ḥawma bint al-ʿAjjāj
	8	Hind bint ʿUtba
	9	Hind bint Uthātha bin ʿAbbād bin al-Muṭṭalib bin ʿAbd Manāf
	10	Ḥurqa bint an-Nuʿmān bin al-Mundhir
	11	Nutaila
	12	Ṣafiyya bint ʿAbdu-l-Muṭṭalib
	13	Ṣafiyya bint Musāfir
	14	Salmā bint Badr bin Mālik
	15	Ukht al-Ḥuṭam
	16	Umm Jamīl bint Umayya
	17	Umm Kulthūm bint ʿAbd Wud al-ʿĀmiriyya
	18	ʿUmra bint Duraid bin aṣ-Ṣamma
4	Poets of the early Islamic period
	1	ʿĀʾisha bint Abī Bakr
	2	Ar-Rabāb bint Imruʾ-l-Qais
	3	Asmāʾ Ṣāḥibat Jaʿd
	4	Fāṭima az-Zahrāʾ
	5	Fāṭima bint al-Ḥusain
	6	Ibnat Lubaid bin Rabīʿa al-ʿĀmirī
	7	Khawla bint al-Azūr al-Kindiyya
	8	Nāʾila bint al-Furāfiṣa
	9	Sīrīn ibnat Ḥassān
	10	Umm-ul-Aswad al-Kilābiyya
	11	ʿĀʾisha bint ʿAbdu-l-Mudān
	12	Umm Ḥakīm bint Yaḥyā
	13	Umm Ḥamāda al-Hamadhāniyya
	14	Umm ʿUqba Zawjat Ghassān bin Jahḍam
	15	ʿUmra bint Ruwāḥa
	16	Zainab bint al-ʿAwwām
	17	Zainab bint ʿUqail bin Abī Ṭālib
5	Analysis: poetics of rejection
6	Umayyad poets
	1	Ad-Diḥdāḥa al-Faqīmiyya
	2	Al-ʿAjliyya
	3	Al-Ḥusainiyya
	4	Al-Kināniyya
	5	Ḥafṣa bint al-Mughīra
	6	Ḥumaida bint an-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī
	7	Jāriyat Sulaimān ibn ʿAbdu-l-Malik
	8	Lailā al-Akhyaliyya
	9	Lailā bint Mahdī (also Lailā al-ʿĀmiriyya)
	10	Lailā bint Yazīd bin aṣ-Ṣaʿq
	11	Maisūn bint Baḥdal
	12	Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya
	13	Saʿda bint Farīd bin Khaithuma bin Nūfal bin Naḍla (also Umm al-Kamīt)
	14	Shaqrāʾ bint al-Ḥubāb
	15	Umaima Imraʾat ibn ad-Damīna
	16	Umm al-Barāʾ bint Ṣafwān (Barra bint Ṣafwān)
	17	Umm al-Ward al-ʿAjlāniyya
	18	Umm Sinān bint Khaithama bin Khursha al-Madhḥajiyya
	19	Umm Walad li-Hishām bin ʿAbdu-l-Malik
	20	ʿUmra bint al-Ḥamāris
	21	ʿUmra bint Mirdās
	22	ʿUṣaima bint Zaid an-Nahdiyya
	23	Zawjat Abī al-Aswad ad-Duʾalī
	24	Zawjat Hishām bin Ṭulba bin Qais
7	Abbasid poets
	1	ʿĀbida al-Juhniyya
	2	ʿĀʾisha bint al-Mahdī
	3	ʿĀʾisha bint al-Muʿtaṣim
	4	Al-Ḥajnāʾ bint Naṣīb
	5	Amal Jāriyat Qarīn an-Nakhās
	6	ʿĀmil Jāriyat Zainab bint Ibrāhīm
	7	ʿAmmat as-Salāmī ash-Shāʿira
	8	ʿĀrim Jāriyat Zalbahda an-Nakhās
	9	ʿĀtika al-Makhzūmiyya
	10	Badr-l-Tamām bint al-Ḥusain
	11	Banān Jāriyat al-Mutawakkil
	12	Bidʿa al-Kubrā Jāriyat ʿUraib
	13	Būrān bint al-Ḥasan bin Sahl
	14	Danānīr Jāriyat Muḥammad bin Kunāsa
	15	Faḍl ash-Shāʿira al-Yamāmiyya
	16	Fāṭima bint al-Khashshāb
	17	Funūn Jāriyat Yaḥyā bin Muʿādh
	18	Ghuṣn Jāriyat ibn al-Aḥdab an-Nakhās
	19	Hīlāna
	20	Ibnat Tamīm
	21	ʿIlm
	22	ʿInān Jāriyat an-Nāṭāfī
	23	Julnār bint Isḥāq
	24	Khadīja bint al-Maʾmūn
	25	Khansāʾ Jāriyat al-Barmakī
	26	Khishf
	27	Khuzāmā
	28	Lubāna bint Raiṭa bin ʿAlī
	29	Maḥbūba Jāriyat al-Mutawakkil
	30	Mathal Jāriyat Ibrāhīm bin al-Mudbir
	31	Māwiyya al-ʿUqailiyya
	32	Mudām Jāriyat al-ʿAbbās bin al-Faḍl
	33	Mukhannatha Jāriyat Zuhair
	34	Murād Jāriyat ʿAlī ibn Hishām
	35	Mutayyam al-Hishāmiyya
	36	Nabt Jāriyat Makhfarāna al-Mukhannath
	37	Nasīm Jāriyat Aḥmad bin Yūsuf al-Kātib
	38	Nasīm Jāriyat al-Maʾmūn
	39	Qabīḥa Jāriyat al-Mutawakkil
	40	Qāsim Jāriyat ibn Ṭarkhān
	41	Rayā al-Madaniyya
	42	Rayā Jāriyat ibn al-Qarāṭīsī
	43	Rayā Jāriyat Isḥāq al-Mawṣilī
	44	Rīm Jāriyat Isḥāq bin ʿAmr as-Salmī
	45	Ṣafiyya al-Baghdādiyya ash-Shāʿira
	46	Ṣāḥib Jāriyat ibn Ṭarkhān an-Nakhās
	47	Sāhir
	48	Sakan Jāriyat Maḥmūd bin al-Ḥasan al-Warrāq
	49	Sakan Jāriyat Ṭāhir bin al-Ḥusain
	50	Salmā al-Yamāmiyya
	51	Salmā bint al-Qurāṭīsī al-Baghdādiyya ash-Shāʿira
	52	Samrāʾ
	53	Ṣarf Jāriyat ibn Khuḍair Mawlā Jaʿfar ibn Sulaimān
	54	Ṣarf Mamlūka-l-ibn ʿAmr
	55	Shamsa al-Mawṣiliyya
	56	Ṭaif al-Baghdādiyya ash-Shāʿira
	57	Taimāʾ Jāriyat Khuzaima bin Khāzim
	58	Thawāb bint ʿAbdullah al-Ḥanẓaliyya al-Hamadhāniyya
	59	Thumāma bint ʿAbdullah
	60	ʿUlayya bint al-Mahdī
	61	Umāma bint al-Jalāḥ
	62	ʿUraib al-Maʾmūniyya
	63	Ẓalūm Jāriyat Muḥammad bin Muslim al-Kātib
	64	Ẓamyāʾ al-Hamadāniyya
	65	Zawjat Abū Ḥamza al-Aʿrābī
8	Andalusian poets
	1	ʿĀʾisha bint Aḥmad al-Qurṭubiyya
	2	Al-Bulaishiyya
	3	Al-Ghassāniyya
	4	Al-ʿUbādiyya
	5	Amat al-ʿAzīz ash-Sharīfa al-Ḥusainiyya
	6	Anas al-Qulūb
	7	Ash-Shalabiyya
	8	Asmāʾ al-ʿĀmiriyya
	9	Buthaina bint al-Muʿtamid bin ʿAbbād
	10	Ghāyat al-Munā
	11	Ḥafṣa bint al-Ḥāj ar-Rukūniyya
	12	Ḥafṣa bint Ḥamdūn al-Ḥajāriyya
	13	Ḥamda bint Ziyād
	14	Hind Jāriyat ash-Shāṭbī
	15	Huja bint ʾAbd-ur-Razāq al-Ghirnāṭiyya
	16	Mahā Jāriyat ʿUraib
	17	Maryam ash-Shalabiyya
	18	Muhja bint at-Tiyānī al-Qurṭubiyya
	19	Mutʿa al-Andalusiyya
	20	Nuzhawn bint al-Qilāʿī al-Ghirnāṭiyya
	21	Qamar al-Ishbīliyya
	22	Qasmūna bint Ismāʿīl
	23	Ṣafiyya bint ʿAbdallah ar-Raibī
	24	Ṣafiyya bint ʿAbd-ur-Raḥmān
	25	Tamīma bint Yūsuf bin Tāshfīn
	26	Umm al-ʿAlāʾ al-Ḥujāriyya al-Barbariyya
	27	Umm al-Hanāʾ
	28	Umm al-Ḥasan bint Abī Jaʿfar aṭ-Ṭanjālī
	29	Umm al-Kirām bint al-Muʿtaṣim bin Ṣamāḍiḥ
	30	Umm as-Saʿd bint ʿIṣām al-Ḥumairī (Saʿdūna)
	31	Wallāda bint al-Mustakfī bi-Allah
	32	Zainab bint Farwa al-Mariyya
	33	Zainab bint Isḥāq an-Naṣrānī
9	Fatimid and Mamluk poets
	1	ʿĀʾisha al-Bāʿūniyya
	2	ʿĀʾisha bint ʿImāra al-Ḥusnī
	3	Al-Badawiyya (The Bedouin)
	4	Badīʿa ar-Rifāʿiyya
	5	Fāṭima bint al-Khashshāb
	6	Fāṭima bint Muḥammad ibn Shīrīn Al-Ḥanafī
	7	Taqiyya bint Ghaith aṣ-Ṣūriyya
Index