Al-Gassaniyya [1] was an Andalusian adība (woman of letters) and poet from Bayyāna, present-day Pechina, Almería, Spain.[2]
Few details remain in the historic record about this Arab poet; her surname, the last remnant of her identity, indicates she belonged to the Gassān clan and was from Bayyāna.[3] She lived perhaps during the height of economic and cultural splendor in Taifa of Almería, coinciding with the reigns of and . This would have made her a contemporary of Zaynab al-Mariyya, another Almerian woman poet.
She is known for writing panegyrics dedicated to the kings.
Only six lines written by al-Gassaniyya have survived: part of a romantic prelude to a likely much longer qasida about Jairán, the king of Almeria, that emulates the work of the famous court poet Ibn Darraj al-Qastalli:[4]