Arib al-Ma'muniyya

ʿArīb al-Ma’mūnīya was a qayna of the early Abbasid period, who has been characterised as 'the most famous slave singer to have ever resided at the Baghdad court'. She lived to 96, and her career spanned the courts of five caliphs.

Shāriyah

Shāriyah was an ‘Abbasid qayna, who enjoyed a prominent place in the court of Al-Wathiq

Taqiyya Umm Ali bint Ghaith ibn Ali al-Armanazi

Umm ‘Alī Taqiyya bint Abi’l-Faraj Ghayth b. ‘Alī b. ‘Abd al-Salām b. Muḥammad b. Ja‘far al-Sulamī al-Armanāzī al-Ṣūrī, also known as Sitt al-Ni‘m, was a poet and scholar, the most prominent female student of Abū Ṭāhir al

Nazhun al-Garnatiya bint al-Qulaiʽiya

Nazhūn bint al-Qulāʽiya al-Gharnātiya was a Granadan courtesan and poet, noted for her outrageous verse

Hamda bint Ziyad al-Muaddib

Ḥamda bint Ziyād al-Muʾaddib was a twelfth-century Andalusian poet from Guadix, sister of Zaynab bint Ziyad al-Muʾaddib, and described by the seventeenth-century diplomat Mohammed ibn abd al-Wahab al-Ghassani as 'one of the poetesses of the Andalus

Ibrahim ibn Wahb al-Katib

Abu ’l-Ḥusayn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Sulaymān ibn Wahb al-Kātib is noted as the author of the rhetorical treatise Kitāb al-Burhān fī wujūh al-bayān

Abu al-Ma'ali al-Haziri

Abū al-Maʿālī Saʿd ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥaẓīrī, often known as Dallāl al-kutub, was a book-merchant, scribe and littérateur from Iraq. He is noted for composing the first known Arabic text entirely devoted to riddles, the Kitāb al-iʿjāz fī l

Al-Hujayjah

Al-Ḥujayjah, also known as Safīyah bint Thaʻlabah al-Shaybānīyah was a pre-Islamic poet of the Banū Shaybān tribe, noted for her work in the genre of taḥrīḍ. Her dates of birth and death are unknown, and even her historicity is open to

Sarah of Yemen

Sarah of Yemen is noted as one of the small number of Arabic-language female poets known for the sixth century CE. It is possible that she was Jewish, in which case she is one of only three attested female medieval Jewish poets

Al-Fari'ah bint Shaddad

Al-Fāriʿah bint Shaddād al-Murriyah was a pre-Islamic Arabic poet, noteworthy both for being one of a relatively small number of known Medieval Arabic female poets, and for the famous short marthiyah she composed for her brother Mas‘ūd ibn Shaddād

Andrei Simonov

Andrei Dmitrievich Simonov was a Russian Armed Forces major general serving as Chief of the Electronic Warfare Troops of the 2nd Army of the Western Military District