‘Inān
Inān bint Abdallāh ( ar, عنان بنت عبد الله, died 841) was a prominent poet of the Abbasid period, even characterised by the tenth-century historian Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahāni as the slave-woman poet of foremost significance in the Arabic tradition. She was later the concubine of Harun al-Rashid. Biography Inān was born a ''muwallada'' (daughter of an Arab father and slave mother) to Abd-Allāh. To her appearance, she was described as a Blonde. She was trained in Yamāma. She was sold to Abū Khālid al-Nāṭifī, who brought her to Baghdad. In the assessment of Fuad Matthew Caswell, Her salon at the house of al-Nāṭifī was frequented by the celebrated poets and men of letters of the time, including Abū Nuwās, Dibil al-Khuzāī, Marwān b. Abī Ḥafṣa, al-ʽAbbās b. al-Aḥnaf and al-Ma’mūn Abu al-Abbas Abdallah ibn Harun al-Rashid ( ar, أبو العباس عبد الله بن هارون الرشيد, Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh i ...
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