Humayda bint Nu'man ibn Bashir explained
Ḥumayda bint Numān ibn Bashīr was an Arabic-speaking female poet and satirist of the seventh century CE.[1] [2] She is noted for her satires on the failings of her various husbands.[3]
Notes and References
- Book: Ibn Khallikān . Ibn Khallikan's biographical dictionary . 1842 . Paris, Printed for the Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland . unknown library . Slane . William Mac Guckin . Ibn Khallikan.
- Book: Essa . Ahmed . Studies in Islamic Civilization: The Muslim Contribution to the Renaissance . Ali . Othman . 2010 . International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) . 978-1-56564-350-5 . en.
- Marlé Hammond, 'The Foul-Mouthed Faḥla: Obscenity and Amplification in Early Women's Invective', in The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy: Essays in Honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder, ed. by Adam Talib, Marlé Hammond and Arie Schippers ([no place]: E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2014), pp. 254-65 .