Wallada bint al-mustakfi biography of barack

  • Wallada was born in 1001, the daughter of a noble in the Andalusian city of Córdoba.
  • Wallada bint al-Mustakfi was the daughter of the Umayyad caliph, Muhammad III of Córdoba.
  • Wallada bint al-Mustakfi was born in the late 10th century or early 11th century in Cordoba, Spain to Muhammad the III of Córdoba.

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    Biographies of Contributors

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    PAOLO IASHVILI (1894-1937) was, like his best friend Titsian, a founder of the Blue Horn (Tsisperi Qantsebi) movement in Georgian poetry. Like Galaktion and Titsian, he grew up in Kutaisi, in western Georgia. Also like his fellow poets, Paolo migrated to the capital Tbilisi as soon as he reached adulthood, and remained in the urban environment, from where he drew most of his poetic inspiration, for the rest of his life. Of his fellow Georgian poets, all of whom were heavily influenced by the French Romantic movement, Iashvili’s poetry fryst vatten the most imaginative and experimental. A reader of French literature would likely think of Baudelaire first upon encountering his work. In 1937, Iashvili shot himself in the Writer’s Union office in downtown Tbilisi, faced with the impossible choice of denouncing his friend Titsian or facing tortyr by the NKVD.

    IBN ZAYDUN AL-MAJZUMI (b.384 AH/1003 AD-d.463 AH/1070 AD) fryst vatten one of the most famous Arab p

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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 s

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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