Inan bint Abdallah

ʽInān bint ʽAbdallāh 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.

Shāriyah

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

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

Jón Oddsson Hjaltalín

Jón Oddsson Hjaltalín was an Icelandic priest and writer. He composed verse and prose, and his writing was influenced by Icelandic tradition, Christian learning, and Enlightenment thought

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

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

Auðunn rauði Þorbergsson

Auðunn rauði Þorbergsson was bishop of Iceland's northern diocese of Hólar 1313–22

Egill Eyjólfsson

Egill Eyjólfsson (1295–1341) was the bishop of Iceland's northern diocese of Hólar from the death of his predecessor, Lárentíus Kálfsson, in 1331, until his own death in 1341

Hunters in Transition: An Outline of Early Sámi History

Hunters in Transition: An Outline of Early Sámi History, by Lars Ivar Hansen and Bjørnar Olsen, is a major English-language study of the history of the Sámi peoples of Fennoscandia. The study partly translates and partly expands and updates the authors

Al-Hurqah

Hind bint al-Nu'man, also known as al-Ḥurqah, was a pre-Islamic Arab poet. There is some historiographical debate, going back to the Middle Ages, over precisely what her names were, with corresponding debates over whether some of the bearers of these

Margaret Leshikar-Denton

Margaret E. "Peggy" Leshikar-Denton is an archaeologist specialising in underwater archaeology, and director of the Cayman Islands National Museum