Al-Khansa

AL-KHANSA

Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr (تماضر بنت عمرو), known as al-Khansāʾ (الخنساء).
Born about 575 in Najd, Arabia.
Died about 646 in Najd.
Wikipedia: English, French, Arabic.


AI. Source: imaginary portrait by Gibran Khalil Gibran.

WORKS

Diwan.
Arabic: Louis Cheikho (1888; see also 1895 and 1896); — Karim Bustani (1951).
English: Diwan (Arthur Wormhoudt, 1973); — Selections from the Diwan (Arthur Wormhoudt, 1977; thesis); — Love sings (James Montgomery, 2019; excerpts); — Diwan (Yasmine Seale, to be released).
French: Femmes arabes avant et depuis l’islamisme (Nicolas Perron, 1858; excerpts in chapters 34–38); — La poésie arabe anté-islamique (René Basset, 1880; excerpts); — Diwan (Victor de Coppier, 1889; see also the other 1889 edition); — Les plus beaux textes arabes (Albert Lantin, 1951; excerpts, in an anthology presented by Émile Dermenghem); — Moi, poète et femme d’Arabie (Anissa Boumediene, 1987).

Created on 10 November 2023. Updated on 19 November 2023.