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Najd, Saudi Arabia

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Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥarth ibn al-Sharīd al-Sulamīyah (Arabic: تماضر بنت عمرو بن الحرث بن الشريد السُلمية ‎), usually simply referred to as al-Khansā’ (Arabic: الخنساء‎) (translated from Arabic as either "gazelle" or "short-nosed") was a 7th-century Arabic poet (said to have died in 646 CE). She was born and raised in Najd, Arabia. She was a contemporary of Muhammad, and eventually converted to Islam.

In her time, the role of a female poet was to write elegies for the dead and perform them for the tribe in public oral competitions. Al-Khansa’ won respect and fame in these competitions with her elegies for her brothers, Ṣakhr and Muʿāwiyah, who had died in battle. She is the best known female poet in Arabic literature.

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Average rating: 4.1 · 50 ratings · 6 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems by Bernard Lewis (Editor), Omar Khayyám, Bashshār ibn Burd 3.77 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poesía árabe clásica by Various, Teresa Garulo (Translator), Federico Corriente (Translator) 3.56 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loss Sings (Volume 32) (Cahiers) by Al-Khansa, James Montgomery (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 33 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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