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'''Sarah of Yemen''' ({{lang-ar|سارة}}, fl. C6 CE) is noted as one of the small number of Arabic-language female poets known for the seventh century CE. It is possible that she was Jewish,<ref>Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry, and Cheryl Tallan, 'Sarah of Yemen', in ''The JPS Guide to Jewish Women: 600 B.C.E. to 1900 C.E.'' (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2003), p. 58.</ref> in which case she is one of only three attested female medieval Jewish poets (the others being the anonymous, tenth-century wife of |
'''Sarah of Yemen''' ({{lang-ar|سارة}}, fl. C6 CE) is noted as one of the small number of Arabic-language female poets known for the seventh century CE. It is possible that she was Jewish,<ref>Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry, and Cheryl Tallan, 'Sarah of Yemen', in ''The JPS Guide to Jewish Women: 600 B.C.E. to 1900 C.E.'' (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2003), p. 58.</ref> in which case she is one of only three attested female medieval Jewish poets (the others being the anonymous, tenth-century [[Dunash_ben_Labrat#Poetry_of_Dunash's_wife|wife of Dunash ben Labrat]] and the probably twelfth-century [[Qasmuna]]).<ref><i>The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492</i>, ed. and trans. by Peter Cole (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), pp. 27, 364.</ref> |
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The poem attributed to her survives in the tenth-century anthology named ''[[Kitab al-Aghani]]'':<ref>Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry, and Cheryl Tallan, 'Sarah of Yemen', in ''The JPS Guide to Jewish Women: 600 B.C.E. to 1900 C.E.'' (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2003), p. 58.</ref> |
The poem attributed to her survives in the tenth-century anthology named ''[[Kitab al-Aghani]]'':<ref>Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry, and Cheryl Tallan, 'Sarah of Yemen', in ''The JPS Guide to Jewish Women: 600 B.C.E. to 1900 C.E.'' (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2003), p. 58.</ref> |
Sarah of Yemen (Arabic: سارة, fl. C6 CE) is noted as one of the small number of Arabic-language female poets known for the seventh century CE. It is possible that she was Jewish,[1] in which case she is one of only three attested female medieval Jewish poets (the others being the anonymous, tenth-century wife of Dunash ben Labrat and the probably twelfth-century Qasmuna).[2]
The poem attributed to her survives in the tenth-century anthology named Kitab al-Aghani:[3]
بنفسي أُمّةٌ لم تُفْنِ شبِأً بذي حُرُضٍ تَعقّبُها الرِياحُ |
By my life, there is a people not long in Du Ḥurud, obliterated by the wind. |
The eulogy implies that Sarah was a member of the Banu Qurayza, commenting on their defeat by Muslims around 627. Little more is known about Sarah, but she 'reputedly participated in a guerrilla action against Muhammad before a Muslim agent killed her.'[6]