Mahd al-Aadiyya explained

Mahd al-Aadiyya
Birth Date:	c. 4000 BCE
Occupation:	Poet
Language:	Arabic
Nationality:	Arabian

Mahd al-Aadiyya (Arabic: مَهد العادية) was supposedly an Arab poet from around 4000 BCE.^[1] She is unlikely to have existed:^[2] Rather she is a chronicle character who is portrayed uttering the earliest example of a muzdawaj (heroic couplet) form^[1] warning the people of ʿĀd of their impending destruction by Allah, in accordance with the prophecies of the prophet Hud.

Anthologies

Classical Poems by Arab Women; translated by Abdullah al-Udhari, Saqi Books, 1999. ^[3]

Notes and References

1. Abdullah al-Udhari (ed. and trans.), Classical Poems by Arab Women: A Bilingual Anthology, (London: Saqi Books, 1999), pp. 26-27.
2. Roger Allen, review of: Approaches to Classical Arabic Poetry - Identification and Identity in Classical Arabic Poetry, M. C. Lyons, Gibb Literary Studies, 2 (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1999).
   - Roger Allen, review of: Abdullah Al-Udhar, Classical Poems by Arab Women: A Bilingual Anthology, in Review of Middle East Studies, 35:2 (2001), 201-3 (at p. 202). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026318400043352.
3. Classical Poems by Arab Women (review). Moris Farhi . Modern Poetry in Translation. 17. 2001. 10 January 2019.