Khansāʾ, al-

Khansāʾ, al-

▪ Arab poet
Arabic“The Snub-Nosed”byname of  Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Sharīd  
died after 630

      one of the greatest Arab poets, famous for her elegies.

      The deaths of two of her kinsmen—her brother Muʿāwiyah and her half-brother Ṣakhr, both of whom had been tribal heads and had been killed in tribal raids sometime before the advent of Islam—threw al-Khansāʾ into deep mourning. Her elegies on these deaths and that of her father made her the most celebrated poet of her time. When her tribe as a group accepted Islam, she went with them to Medina to meet the Prophet Muhammad, but she persisted in wearing the pre-Islamic mourning dress as an act of devotion to her brothers. When her four sons were slain in the Battle of Qādisīyah (637), the caliph ʿUmar is said to have written her a letter congratulating her on their heroism and assigned her a pension.

      The collected poetry of al-Khansāʾ, the Dīwān (published in an English translation by Arthur Wormhoudt in 1973), reflects the pagan fatalism of the tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia. The poems are generally short and imbued with a strong and traditional sense of despair at the irretrievable loss of life. The elegies of al-Khansāʾ were highly influential, especially among later elegists.

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