Medieval Arabic female poets
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In the surviving historical record, Medieval Arabic female poets are few compared with the number of known male Arabic-language poets: there has been 'an almost total eclipse of women's poetic expression in the literary record as maintained in Arabic culture from the pre-Islamic era through the nineteenth century'.
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Known female poets
The following list of known women poets is based on (but not limited to) Abdullah al-Udhari's Classical Poems by Arab Women. It is not complete.
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The Jahilayya (4000 BCE–622 CE)
- Mahd al-Aadiyya (Template:Lang-ar, c. 4000 BCE)
- Afira bint 'Abbad (Template:Lang-ar, C3 CE)
- Laila bint Lukaiz (Template:Lang-ar, d. 483 CE)
- Jalila bint Murra (Template:Lang-ar, d. 540 CE)
- Umama bint Kulaib (Template:Lang-ar, C5–6 CE)
- al-Ḥurqah (Template:Lang-ar, C5–6 CE)
- al-Ḥujayjah, aka Safīyah bint Thaʻlabah al-Shaybānīyah (Template:Lang-ar, C5–6 CE)
- Safiyya bint Khalid al-Bahiliyya (Template:Lang-ar)
- Juhaifa Addibabiyya (Template:Lang-ar)
- Umm Khalid Annumairiyya (Template:Lang-ar)
- Ishraqa al-Muharibiyya (Template:Lang-ar)
- Umm Jamil bint Harb (Template:Lang-ar)
- Hind bint ‘Utbah (Template:Lang-ar)
- Qutayla ukht al-Nadr (Template:Lang-ar)
- Umm Addahak al-Muheribiyya (Template:Lang-ar)
- Janūb Ukht ‘Amr dhī-l-Kalb (Template:Lang-ar)
- al-Fāriʿah bint Shaddād (Template:Lang-ar)
- al-Khansa (Template:Lang-ar, d. 646 CE)
- Sarah of Yemen (Template:Lang-ar, C6 CE)
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The Islam Period (622–661 CE)
- Fatima bint Muhammad (Template:Lang-ar, 605–632 CE)
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The Umayyad Period (661–750 CE)
- Laila bint Sa'd al-Aamiriyya (Template:Lang-ar, d. 668 CE)
- Maisūn bint Jandal (Template:Lang-ar)
- Ḥumayda bint Nu‘mān ibn Bashīr (C7 CE)
- Laila al-Akhyaliyya (Template:Lang-ar, d. AH 75/694×90/709 CE)
- Dahna bint Mas-hal (Template:Lang-ar, c. C7–8 CE)
- Bint al-Hubab (Template:Lang-ar)
- Umm al-Ward al-Ajlaniyya (Template:Lang-ar)
- Umaima Addumarainiyya (Template:Lang-ar, C8 CE)
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The Abbasid Period (750–1258 CE)
- Hajna bint Nusaib (Template:Lang-ar, c. C8–9 CE)
- Raabi'a al-Adwiyya (Template:Lang-ar, 714–801 CE)
- Laila bint Tarif (Template:Lang-ar, d. 815 CE)
- 'Ulayya bint al-Mahdi (Template:Lang-ar, 777–825 CE)
- Lubāna bint ‘Alī ibn al-Mahdī (Template:Lang-ar, c. C8–9 CE)
- Inan (Template:Lang-ar, d. 841 CE)
- 'Asiya al-Baghdadiyya (Template:Lang-ar, c. C9 CE)
- Zahra al-Kilabiyya (Template:Lang-ar, c. C8–9 CE)
- Aa'isha bint al-Mu'tasim (Template:Lang-ar, c. C8–9 CE)
- Shāriyah (Template:Lang-ar, c. 815-70 CE)
- Fadl Ashsha'ira (Template:Lang-ar, d. 871 CE)
- Zabba bint Umair ibn al-Muwarriq (Template:Lang-ar, c. C9 CE)
- Juml (Template:Lang-ar, C9 CE)
- Umm Ja'far bint 'Ali (Template:Lang-ar)
- Arib al-Ma'muniyya (Template:Lang-ar, 797–890 CE)
- Thawab bint Abdullah al-Hanzaliyya (Template:Lang-ar)
- Salma bint al-Qaratisi (Template:Lang-ar, c. C12 CE)
- Safiyya al-Baghdadiyya (Template:Lang-ar, C12 CE)
- Taqiyya Umm Ali bint Ghaith ibn Ali al-Armanazi (a.k.a. Sitt al-Ni‘m, Template:Lang-ar, 1111-1183/4)
- Shamsa al-Mawsiliyya (Template:Lang-ar, C13 CE)
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The Andalus Period (711–1492 CE)
- Hafsa bint Hamdun (Template:Lang-ar, C10 CE)
- Aa'isha bint Ahmad al-Qurtubiyya (Template:Lang-ar, d. 1010 CE)
- Mariam bint Abu Ya'qub Ashshilbi (Template:Lang-ar, d. 1020 CE)
- Umm al-Kiram bin al-Mu'tasim ibn Sumadih (Template:Lang-ar, d. 1050 CE)
- Umm al-Ala bint Yusuf (Template:Lang-ar, d. 1050 CE)
- Khadija bint Ahmad ibn Kulthum al-Mu'afiri (Template:Lang-ar, C10–11 CE)
- Qasmuna bint Isma'il (Template:Lang-ar, C11 CE)
- Ghassaniyya al-Bajjaniyya (Template:Lang-ar, C11 CE)
- Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (Template:Lang-ar, d. 1091 CE)
- I'timad Arrumaimikiyya (Template:Lang-ar, 1041–1095 CE)
- Muhja bint Attayyani al-Qurtubiyya (Template:Lang-ar, d. 1097 CE)
- Nazhun al-Gharnatiyya (Template:Lang-ar, d. 1100 CE)
- Amat al-Aziz (Template:Lang-ar, C12 CE)
- Buthaina bint al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (Template:Lang-ar, 1070–? CE)
- Hind (Template:Lang-ar, C12 CE)
- Umm al-Hana bint Abdulhaqq ibn Atiyya (Template:Lang-ar, C12 CE)
- Hafsa bint al-Hajj Arrakuniyya (Template:Lang-ar, d. 1190 CE)
- Ashshilbiyya (Template:Lang-ar, C12 CE)
- Aa'isha al-Iskandraniyya (Template:Lang-ar)
- Hamda bint Ziyad (Template:Lang-ar, c. 1204 CE)
- Umm Assa'd bint Isam al-Himyari (Template:Lang-ar, d. 1243 CE)
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