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Humayda bint Nu'man ibn Bashir

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Ḥumayda bint Nuʽmān ibn Bashīr (Arabic: حميدة بنت النعمان بن بشير) 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]

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  1. ^ Ibn Khallikān (1842). Slane, William Mac Guckin (ed.). Ibn Khallikan's biographical dictionary. unknown library. Paris, Printed for the Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
  2. ^ Essa, Ahmed; Ali, Othman (2010). Studies in Islamic Civilization: The Muslim Contribution to the Renaissance. International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). ISBN 978-1-56564-350-5.
  3. ^ 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 ISBN 978-1-909724-33-4.