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Hababa
Hababa or Hababah may refer to the following: People * Hababa (slave) Places * Hababa, Syria, a village near Tartus ) , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = , imagesize = , image_caption = Tartus corniche Port of Tartus • Tartus beach and boulevard Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa • Al-Assad Stadium&n ..., Syria * Hababah, Yemen, a village in central Yemen {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hababa (slave)
Hababah ( ar, حبابة; d. 724), was a ''jarya'' slave singer and poet of the Caliph Yazid II. Hababah was a slave, brought to the Umayyad harem of the Caliph Yazid II as a concubine. She was a non-Arab slave, trained in one of the schools for qiyan or singing girl in Medina. Yazid II noticed her during a visit to Hijaz, and his wife Sada bought Hababah as a gift for him for a price of 4,000 dinars. She entertained him as a singer and a poet. Yazid became so much in love with her that he was described as hypnotized by her singing and poetry.Mernissi, Fatima; Mary Jo Lakeland (2003). The forgotten queens of Islam. Oxford University Press. . The chronicles state: :'One day while Hababa was singing, Yazid experienced such great pleasure that he burst out: "I want to fly away!" :Hababa told him: "Commander of the Faithful, if you leave the umma and also us, who will take care of us?'" Hababah came to have more influence than any other concubine over a Caliph before her. Yazid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hababa, Syria
Hababa ( ar, حَبَابَة) is a Syrian village in the Duraykish District in Tartous Governorate Tartus Governorate, also transliterated as Tartous Governorate, ( ar, مُحافظة طرطوس / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ṭarṭūs'') is one of the 14 governorates of Syria. It is situated in western Syria, bordering Latakia Governorate to the .... According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Hababa had a population of 769 in the 2004 census. References Alawite communities in Syria Populated places in Duraykish District {{syria-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tartus
) , settlement_type = City , image_skyline = , imagesize = , image_caption = Tartus corniche Port of Tartus • Tartus beach and boulevard Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa • Al-Assad Stadium Citadel of Tartus , image_seal = Emblem of Tartus.svg , seal_size = 60px , mapsize1 = TarusSeadefence.jpg , pushpin_map = Syria#Mediterranean east#Asia , pushpin_label_position = bottom , pushpin_mapsize = 250 , pushpin_map_caption = Location in Syria , pushpin_relief = 1 , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = , subdivision_type1 = Governorate , subdivision_name1 = Tartus Governorate , subdivision_type2 = District , subdivision_name2 = Tartus District , subdivision_type3 = Subdistrict , subdivision_name3 = Tartus Subdistrict , leader_title = Governor , leader_name = Abdel Halim Khalil , est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
