Fadl Ashsha'ira [SEP] sex or gender
Faḍl al-Shāʻirah
Faḍl al-Shāʻirah ( "Faḍl the Poet", d. 871) was one of "three early ʻAbbasid singing girls ... particularly famous for their poetry" and is one of the pre-eminent medieval Arabic female poets whose work survives.
Life.
Born in al-Yamama (now in Bahrain), Fadl was brought up in ʻAbbasid Basra, (now in Iraq). Her brothers sold her to a leading officer of the Caliphate, and he gave her to Caliph Al-
C8–9 CE)
- Inan (, d. 841 CE)
- 'Asiya al-Baghdadiyya (, c. C9 CE)
- Zahra al-Kilabiyya (, c. C8–9 CE)
- Aa'isha bint al-Mu'tasim (, c. C8–9 CE)
- Shāriyah (, c. 815-70 CE)
- Fadl Ashsha'ira (, d. 871 CE)
- Zabba bint Umair ibn al-Muwarriq (, c. C9 CE)
- Juml (, C9 CE)
- Umm Ja'far bint '