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Al-Khansa
Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Sharīd al-Sulamīyah ( ar, تماضر بنت عمرو بن الحارث بن الشريد السُلمية), usually simply referred to as al-Khansāʾ ( ar, الخنساء, links=no, meaning "snub-nosed", an Arabic epithet for a gazelle as metaphor for beauty) was a 7th century in poetry, 7th-century tribeswoman, living in the Arabian Peninsula. She was one of the most influential poets of the Pre-Islamic Arabia, pre-Islamic and early Islamic periods. In her time, the role of a female poet was to write elegy, elegies for the dead and perform them for the tribe in public Oral literature, oral competitions. Al-Khansāʾ won respect and fame in these competitions with her elegies, and is widely considered as the finest author of Arabic poetry, Arabic elegies and one of the greatest and best known female Arab poets of all time. In 629, she went to Medina with a deputation from her clan and, after meeting the Islamic prophet Muhammad, emb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Khansa
Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Sharīd al-Sulamīyah ( ar, تماضر بنت عمرو بن الحارث بن الشريد السُلمية), usually simply referred to as al-Khansāʾ ( ar, الخنساء, links=no, meaning "snub-nosed", an Arabic epithet for a gazelle as metaphor for beauty) was a 7th century in poetry, 7th-century tribeswoman, living in the Arabian Peninsula. She was one of the most influential poets of the Pre-Islamic Arabia, pre-Islamic and early Islamic periods. In her time, the role of a female poet was to write elegy, elegies for the dead and perform them for the tribe in public Oral literature, oral competitions. Al-Khansāʾ won respect and fame in these competitions with her elegies, and is widely considered as the finest author of Arabic poetry, Arabic elegies and one of the greatest and best known female Arab poets of all time. In 629, she went to Medina with a deputation from her clan and, after meeting the Islamic prophet Muhammad, emb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
