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Poetic slave girls
الإماء الشواعر
Author: علي بن الحسين بن محمد بن أحمد بن الهيثم المرواني الأموي القرشي، أبو الفرج الأصبهاني (المتوفى: 356هـ) (d. 356)
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الإماء الشواعر. كتاب لأبي الفرج الأصبهاني يظهر براعة النساء الشواعر وهنّ يقفن مع شعراء العصر العباسي ويشهد لهن بالشاعرية الفذة مقدماً صوراً نادرة عن مجالس السحر في بغداد: إبان عصرها الذهبي ويضم الكتاب نوادر ثلاث وثلاثين شاعرة عباسية.
Translation
Poetic slave girls. A book by Abu Al-Faraj Al-Isbahani shows the prowess of women poets as they stand with the poets of the Abbasid era and attests to their exceptional poeticism, presenting rare pictures of magic councils in Baghdad: during its golden age. The book includes anecdotes from thirty-three Abbasid poets.
Topics covered
- Anan, Al-Natfi's slave girl
- Current dinars of Muhammad bin Kanasa
- The virtue of the Yamamite poet
- Al-Mutawakkil's slave girl
- Taima, slave girl of Khuzaymah bin Khazim
- The residence of Taher bin Al-Hussein’s maid
- Current Arts Yahya bin Moaz
- He dismissed the slave girl of Ibn Khudair, the client of Jaafar bin Suleiman
- Nassim Jariya Ahmed bin Youssef
- author
- Arim, Zalbahda’s slave girl
- Murad Jariyah Ali bin Hisham
- Salma Al-Yamamiya
- Abi Abbad's slave girl
- Ali bin Hisham's slave girl
- I love Al-Hashamiya
- Samra and Helena
- The oppression of Muhammad bin Muslim’s slave girl
- Oraib Al-Mamounia
- Arafa, the agent of Bidah, told me:
- The worker of Zainab bint Ibrahim’s slave girl
- Raya and Dhamia
- Raya and Dhamia are two of the city's generators.
- Al-Mutawakkil's beloved slave girl
- Banan, Al-Mutawakkil's slave girl
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