The poetry of Arab women : from the pre-Islamic age to Andalusia / Wessam Elmeligi [translator]

This is a compilation of poetry written by Arabic women poets from pre-Islamic times to the end of the Abbasid caliphate and Andalusia, and offers translations of over 200 poets together with literary commentary on the poets and their poetry. This critical anthology presents the poems of more than 2...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Elmeligi, Wessam (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Arabic
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Focus on global gender and sexuality.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: writing a critical anthology of women poets in translation
  • Poets of the pre-Islamic period
  • Crossover poets
  • Poets of the early Islamic period
  • Analysis: poetics of rejection
  • Umayyad poets
  • Abbasid poets
  • Andalusian poets
  • Fatimid and Mamluk poets
  • Index.
  • <P></P><P>Contents</P><P>Acknowledgements</P><P></P><P>1. Introduction: Writing a Critical Anthology of Women Poets in Translation</P><P></P><P>2. Poets of the Pre-Islamic Period</P><B><P></P><OL></B><P><LI>ʿAbla bint Khālid at-Tamīmiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ad-Daʿjāʼ bint Wahb</LI><P></P><P><LI>Al-Basūs bint Munqidh al-Bikriyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Al-Fāriʿa bint Muʿāwiya al-Qushairiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Al-Jaidāʼ bint Zāhir al-Zubaidiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Al-Khansāʼ bint Zuhair bin Abī Salmā</LI><P></P><P><LI>An-Nawwār al-Jul</LI><P></P><P><LI>Asmāʼ al-Mariyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>As-Sulaka Umm as-Sulaik</LI><P></P><P><LI>Bārra bint ʿAbdu-l-Muṭṭalib</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ḍāḥiya al-Hilāliyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Dahknatūs bint Luqaiṭ</LI><P></P><P><LI>Dijāja bint Ṣafwān</LI><P></P><P><LI>Fāṭima bint Murr al-Khuthʿamiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Fāriʿa al-Muriyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Hazīla al-Judaisiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Hind al-Julāḥiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Hind bint al-Khus</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ḥusaina bint Jābir bint Bujair al-ʿIjlī</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ibnat aḍ-Ḍaḥāk bin Sufyān (Ḥabība bint aḍ-Ḍaḥāk)</LI><P></P><P><LI>Jalīla bint Murra ash-Shaibāniyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Jāriyat Humām ibn Murra</LI><P></P><P><LI>Karma bint Ḍilʿ</LI><P></P><P><LI>Lailā al-ʿAfīfa</LI><P></P><P><LI>Lailā bint Mirdās</LI><P></P><P><LI>Manfūsa bint Zaid al-Khail</LI><P></P><P><LI>Raiṭa bint ʿĀṣiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Raiṭa bint Jadhl aṭ-Ṭaʿān</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ṣafiyya al-Bāhiliyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ṣafiyya bint Thaʿlaba al-Shaibāniyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Subaiʿa bint al-Aḥab</LI><P></P><P><LI>Suʿdā al-Asadiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Suʿdā al-Lakhmiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Sulaimā bint al-Muhalhal</LI><P></P><P><LI>Sumayya Zawjat Shaddād al-ʿAbsī</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ṭāriqa</LI><P></P><P><LI>Tumāḍir bint ash-Sharīd as-Salmiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>ʿUfaira bint ʿAffān al-Judaisiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ukht al-Aswad bin Ghaffār (Ghafīra bint Ghaffār)</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umaima bint ʿAbdu-l-Muṭṭalib</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umāma bint Dhī-l-Iṣbaʿ</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umāma bint Kulaib at-Taghlibiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm Abī Judāba</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm aḍ-Ḍaḥāk al-Muḥāribiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm al-Aghar bint Rabīʿa at-Taghlibiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm aṣ-Ṣarīḥ al-Kindiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm Mūsā al-Kilābiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm Nāshira at-Taghlibiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm Thawāb al-Huzāniyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>ʿUmra bint al-Khunābis at-Taghlibiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>ʿUtba bint ʿAfīf</LI><P></P><P><LI>Wahība bint ʿAbdu-l-ʿUzzā</LI><P></P><P><LI>Zainab bint Farwa at-Tamīmiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Zarqāʼ al-Yamāma</LI><P></P></OL><P></P><P> </P><P>3. Crossover Poets</P><OL><P><LI>ʿAfrāʼ bint ʿUqāl al-ʿUdhriyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Al-Khansāʼ</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ash-Shaimāʼ bint al-Ḥarth as-Saʿdiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Arwā bint ʿAbdu-l-Muṭṭalib</LI><P></P><P><LI>Asmāʼ bint Abī Bakr</LI><P></P><P><LI>Durra al-Hāshimiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ḥawma bint al-ʿAjjāj</LI><P></P><P><LI>Hind bint ʿUtba</LI><P></P><P><LI>Hind bint Uthātha bin ʿAbbād bin al-Muṭṭalib bin ʿAbd Manāf</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ḥurqa bint an-Nuʿmān bin al-Mundhir</LI><P></P><P><LI>Nutaila</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ṣafiyya bint ʿAbdu-l-Muṭṭalib</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ṣafiyya bint Musāfir</LI><P></P><P><LI>Salmā bint Badr bin Mālik</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ukht al-Ḥuṭam</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm Jamīl bint Umayya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm Kulthūm bint ʿAbd Wud al-ʿĀmiriyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>ʿUmra bint Duraid bin aṣ-Ṣamma</LI><P></P></OL><P></P><P>4. Poets of the Early Islamic Period</P><B><P></P><OL></B><P><LI>ʿĀʼisha bint Abī Bakr</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ar-Rabāb bint Imruʼ-l-Qais</LI><P></P><P><LI>Asmāʼ Ṣāḥibat Jaʿd </LI><P></P><P><LI>Fāṭima az-Zahrāʼ</LI><P></P><P><LI>Fāṭima bint al-Ḥusain</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ibnat Lubaid bin Rabīʿa al-ʿĀmirī</LI><P></P><P><LI>Khawla bint al-Azūr al-Kindiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Nāʼila bint al-Furāfiṣa</LI><P></P><P><LI>Sīrīn ibnat Ḥassān</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm-ul-Aswad al-Kilābiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm Ḥakīm bint Qāriẓ</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm Ḥakīm bint Yaḥyā</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm Ḥamāda al-Hamadhāniyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm ʿUqba Zawjat Ghassān bin Jahḍam</LI><P></P><P><LI>ʿUmra bint Ruwāḥa</LI><P></P><P><LI>Zainab bint al-ʿAwwām</LI><P></P><P><LI>Zainab bint ʿUqail bin Abī Ṭālib</LI><P></P></OL><P></P><P>5. Analysis: Poetics of Rejection</P><P></P><P>6. Umayyad Poets</P><B><P></P><OL></B><P><LI>Ad-Diḥdāḥa al-Faqīmiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Al-ʿAjliyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Al-Ḥusainiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Al-Kināniyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ḥafṣa bint al-Mughīra</LI><P></P><P><LI>Ḥumaida bint an-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī</LI><P></P><P><LI>Jāriyat Sulaimān ibn ʿAbdu-l-Malik</LI><P></P><P><LI>Lailā al-Akhyaliyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Lailā bint Mahdī (also Lailā al-ʿĀmiriyya)</LI><P></P><P><LI>Lailā bint Yazīd bin aṣ-Ṣaʿq</LI><P></P><P><LI>Maisūn bint Baḥdal</LI><P></P><P><LI>Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Saʿda bint Farīd bin Khaithuma bin Nūfal bin Naḍla. (also Umm al-Kamīt)</LI><P></P><P><LI>Shaqrāʼ bint al-Ḥubāb</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umaima Imraʼat ibn ad-Damīna</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm al-Barāʼ bint Ṣafwān (Barra bint Ṣafwān)</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm al-Ward al-ʿAjlāniyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm Sinān bint Khaithama bin Khursha al-Madhḥajiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Umm Walad li-Hishām bin ʿAbdu-l-Malik</LI><P></P><P><LI>ʿUmra bint al-Ḥamāris</LI><P></P><P><LI>ʿUmra bint Mirdās</LI><P></P><P><LI>ʿUṣaima bint Zaid an-Nahdiyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>Zawjat Abī al-Aswad ad-Duʼalī</LI><P></P><P><LI>Zawjat Hishām bin Ṭulba bin Qais</LI><P></P></OL><P></P><P>7. Abbasid Poets</P><B><P></P><OL></B><P><LI>ʿĀbida al-Juhniyya</LI><P></P><P><LI>ʿĀʼisha bint al-Mahdī</LI><P></P><P><LI>ʿĀʼisha bint al-Muʿtaṣim</LI><P></P><P><LI>Al-Ḥajnāʼ bint Naṣīb</LI><P><