Inan bint Abdallah

Inan bint Abdallah
عنان بنت عبد الله
Diedc. 810 or 841
Iraq
Resting placeIraq
Pen nameInan
OccupationArabic Poet
LanguageArabic
NationalityCaliphate
PeriodIslamic Golden Age
(Abbasid era)

ʽInān bint ʽAbdallāh (Arabic: عنان بنت عبد الله, died 841)[1] was a prominent poet and qiyan 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.[2] She was later the concubine of Harun al-Rashid.[3]

  1. ^ Classical Poems by Arab Women: A Bilingual Anthology, ed. and trans. by Abdullah al-Udhari (London: Saqi Books, 1999), p. 124.
  2. ^ Fuad Matthew Caswell, The Slave Girls of Baghdad: The 'Qiyān' in the Early Abbasid Era (London: I. B. Tauris, 2011), p. 56.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference laterlife was invoked but never defined (see the help page).