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According to Hamad Alajmi, 'Al-Ḥujayjah’s poetry, in general, is similar to other female poets from the pre-Islamic period. Her poems are short and consist of one section as opposed to the standard tripartite pre-Islamic odes ... Her language is pragmatic and lacks metaphorical diction, but is rich
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As with other supposedly pre-Islamic poetry, there has been scholarly debate over whether Al-Ḥujayjah's work might actually have been fabricated later in the medieval period (even if she herself was real). It survives only in
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Hamad Alajmi, 'Pre-Islamic Poetry and Speech Act Theory: Al-A`sha, Bishr ibn Abi Khazim, and al-Ḥujayjah' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University, 2012), pp. 162-63, 165.
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Hamad Alajmi, 'Pre-Islamic Poetry and Speech Act Theory: Al-A`sha, Bishr ibn Abi Khazim, and al-Ḥujayjah' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University, 2012), p. 161 n. 1.
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Hamad Alajmi, 'Pre-Islamic Poetry and Speech Act Theory: Al-A`sha, Bishr ibn Abi Khazim, and al-Ḥujayjah' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University, 2012), pp. 167-68.
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Hamad Alajmi, 'Pre-Islamic Poetry and Speech Act Theory: Al-A`sha, Bishr ibn Abi Khazim, and al-Ḥujayjah' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University, 2012), pp. 195-96.
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Hamad Alajmi, 'Pre-Islamic Poetry and Speech Act Theory: Al-A`sha, Bishr ibn Abi Khazim, and al-Ḥujayjah' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University, 2012), p. 169.
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An example of her poetry, as translated by Alajmi, is this incitement to her people to receive and protect al-Ḥurqah bint al-Nuʻmān:
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period to encourage ethnic Arabs to resist the claims for parity of status within the Caliphate by Persian members, known as the
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in c. 609. Characterised as a 'warrior diplomat', she has been read as a key figure in pre-Islamic poetry.
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around the beginning of the seventh century, and her surviving corpus relates to the
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6. For I have granted protection to a noble woman from the people of Kisrá ,
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3. the daughter of the kings, the owners of kingdoms and high ranks,
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1. Oh Banū Shaybān, give life to of protecting the neighbor for all
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2. What is your excuse? When a noble freewoman has wrapped herself
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12. O people of Shaybān, you have been victorious in the world,
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10. The sons of my father arrive at the battlefield not fearing
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9. My people grant protection to the refugee, from his enemy
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The attacks of the enemy and the assaults of the opponents.
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7. Shaybān are my people. Is there another tribe like them?
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11. Indeed, I am Ḥujayjah of Wāʼil, and with Wāʼil,
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Index

Arabic
Arabic
Banū Shaybān
taḥrīḍ
al-Ḥurqah bint al-Nuʻmān
Khosrow II
al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir
Battle of Dhū-Qār
Bishr ibn Marwān al-Asadī's
Arabic
Abbasid
Shu'ubiyya
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Medieval women poets
Arabic-language women poets
Arabic-language poets
6th-century Arabic-language poets
7th-century Arabic-language poets
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7th-century women writers
6th-century births
7th-century deaths

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