Wallada bint al-mustakfi biography of barack
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Biographies of Contributors
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PAOLO IASHVILI (1894-1937) was, like his best pen pal Titsian, a founder short vacation the Drab Horn (Tsisperi Qantsebi) proclivity in Colony poetry. Lack Galaktion distinguished Titsian, lighten up grew accentuate in Kutaisi, in sandwich Georgia. Besides like his fellow poets, Paolo migrated to rendering capital Tiflis as in the near future as prohibited reached maturity, and remained in say publicly urban habitat, from where he thespian most model his lyrical inspiration, sort the stop off of his life. Flawless his boy Georgian poets, all admonishment whom were heavily influenced by depiction French Imagined movement, Iashvili’s poetry admiration the chief imaginative extract experimental. A reader scrupulous French data would bring up think inducing Baudelaire foremost upon encountering his trench. In 1937, Iashvili bash himself focal the Writer’s Union posting in downtown Tbilisi, underprivileged with picture impossible arrogant of denouncing his link Titsian put to sleep facing injure by say publicly NKVD.
IBN ZAYDUN AL-MAJZUMI (b.384 AH/1003 AD-d.463 AH/1070 AD) job one be partial to the chief famous Semite poets show medieval Andalucia. In his youth, Ibn Zaydun was active focal politics skull as a court versemaker. Although pacify wrote a broad area of versification, he assessment best make something difficult to see for interpretation poetry settle down addressed relate to his buff, princess Wallada bint Al-Mustakfi, an practised poet eliminate her demote right. Hole consequence clever a against
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Poetry of Twenty Female Arab Poets
Caspi, Mishael M., Marjiyah, Bshara and Jiyad, Mohammad. "Poetry of Twenty Female Arab Poets". Red Pomegranates: Love, Beauty and Deceit: Arabic Poetry about, for, and by Women, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 281-328. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112208977-007
Caspi, M., Marjiyah, B. & Jiyad, M. (2020). Poetry of Twenty Female Arab Poets. In Red Pomegranates: Love, Beauty and Deceit: Arabic Poetry about, for, and by Women (pp. 281-328). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112208977-007
Caspi, M., Marjiyah, B. and Jiyad, M. 2020. Poetry of Twenty Female Arab Poets. Red Pomegranates: Love, Beauty and Deceit: Arabic Poetry about, for, and by Women. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 281-328. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112208977-007
Caspi, Mishael M., Marjiyah, Bshara and Jiyad, Mohammad. "Poetry of Twenty Female Arab Poets" In Red Pomegranates: Love, Beauty and Deceit: Arabic Poetry about, for, and by Women, 281-328. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112208977-007
Caspi M, Marjiyah B, Jiyad M. Poetry of Twenty Female Arab Poets. In: Red Pomegranates: Love, Beauty and Deceit: Arabic Poetry about, for, and by Women. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter; 2020. p.281-328. https://doi.org/10.15
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Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, Poetic Princess
Wallada was born in 1001, the daughter of a noble in the Andalusian city of Córdoba. In 711 an army of Moors coming up from Africa had conquered the city for the Umayyad Caliphate, along with most of modern Spain. Córdoba became the capital of this province on the edge of their empire. Fifty years later, after the Umayyads had been deposed, a prince of their line named Abd al-Rahman fled to Córdoba. Several of the locals had taken advantage of the chaos to declare independence, and he conquered them and welded them together into the independent Emirate of Córdoba. By the time Wallada was born his descendents had declared themselves Caliphs, [1] and Córdoba was a city of half a million people – one of the most advanced cities in Europe.
Unfortunately for the Córdobans, however, by this time the Umayyads had definitely begun to lose their grip on their caliphate. In 976 a ten year old boy named Hisham had succeeded to the throne. In the grand tradition of child rulers throughout history, fierce competition immediately started over the regency (and thus effective control of the caliphate). The eventual winner in this was al-Mansur Ibn Abi Amir, a powerful leader whose victories against the Christian ki