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'''Fāṭima bint Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Jahḍamī''' {{lang-ar|فاطمة بنت أحمد محمد الجهضمي}}, known as '''Fāṭima al-Suqutriyya''' ({{lang-ar|فاطمة السقطرية}}, Fatima the Socotrian) or, in some accounts, '''al-Zahra al-Suqutriyya''', was a Yemeni writer and poet who lived on the island of [[Socotra]] in the third century AH (816–913 CE).<ref>The principal scholarly accounts of her are found in Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh bin Ḥumayd al-Sālimī, ''[https://archive.org/details/tohfata3yansao/tasao1 Tuḥfat al-Aʿyān bi-sīrat ahl ʿUmān]'' (Cairo: Matba‘at al-sufliyya, 1347/1928), p. 112 and Sālim ibn Ḥumūd, ''[https://archive.org/details/Omaan_20161228 ʿUmān ʿabr al-tārīkh]'' (Muscat, 1982), II, 191, cited by Isam Ali Ahmad al-Rawas, '[http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1497 Early Islamic Oman (ca - 622/280-893): A Political History]' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Durham, 1990), p. 273.</ref>
'''Fāṭima bint Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Jahḍamī''' ({{lang-ar|فاطمة بنت أحمد محمد الجهضمي}}), known as '''Fāṭima al-Suqutriyya''' ({{lang-ar|فاطمة السقطرية}}, Fatima the Socotrian) or, in some accounts, '''al-Zahra al-Suqutriyya''', was a Yemeni writer and poet who lived on the island of [[Socotra]] in the third century AH (816–913 CE).<ref>The principal scholarly accounts of her are found in Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh bin Ḥumayd al-Sālimī, ''[https://archive.org/details/tohfata3yansao/tasao1 Tuḥfat al-Aʿyān bi-sīrat ahl ʿUmān]'' (Cairo: Matba‘at al-sufliyya, 1347/1928), p. 112 and Sālim ibn Ḥumūd, ''[https://archive.org/details/Omaan_20161228 ʿUmān ʿabr al-tārīkh]'' (Muscat, 1982), II, 191, cited by Isam Ali Ahmad al-Rawas, '[http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1497 Early Islamic Oman (ca - 622/280-893): A Political History]' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Durham, 1990), p. 273.</ref>


== Biography ==
== Biography ==

Revision as of 16:48, 24 October 2020

Fāṭima bint Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Jahḍamī (Template:Lang-ar), known as Fāṭima al-Suqutriyya (Template:Lang-ar, Fatima the Socotrian) or, in some accounts, al-Zahra al-Suqutriyya, was a Yemeni writer and poet who lived on the island of Socotra in the third century AH (816–913 CE).[1]

Biography

Al-Suqutriyya is thought to have been born on the island of Socotra, during the third century AH.[2] She was a poet and was related to Sultan al-Qāsim bin Muḥammad al-Jahḍamī, the ruler of the Yemeni island of Socotra.[3] He was killed by Ethiopians who attacked the island.[3] Al-Suqutriyya reputedly wrote a qaṣīda to Imam al-Ṣalt ibn Mа̄lik, who had assumed the imamate of Oman in 273 AH / 886 CE, requesting help from him.[3] The poem was sent by sea and found by a fisherman who passed it on to the imam.[4] The Imam sent a fleet of one hundred boats to Socotra, defeating the Ethiopian force on Socotra.[3][5]

Al-Suqutriyya died some time after the year 273 AH / 886 CE.[2]

Reception

Al-Suqutriyya is considered a lost voice in Omani literature, whose work was re-discovered in the twentieth century.[6]

Al-Suqutriyya's story and her poetry featured in an episode of "History and Heritage (Omani Personalities Immortalized by History)" presented by Dr. Hamid Al-Nawfali for Al-Ru'ya TV.[7] This programme became controversial when it was aired in Socotra, because it claimed that Al-Suqutriyya was from Oman.[8] A resident of the island, Abdul Karim Qabalan, called on the television company to apologise.[8] In 2016, the novelist Munir Talal published a re-telling of the poem.[9]

References

  1. ^ The principal scholarly accounts of her are found in Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh bin Ḥumayd al-Sālimī, Tuḥfat al-Aʿyān bi-sīrat ahl ʿUmān (Cairo: Matba‘at al-sufliyya, 1347/1928), p. 112 and Sālim ibn Ḥumūd, ʿUmān ʿabr al-tārīkh (Muscat, 1982), II, 191, cited by Isam Ali Ahmad al-Rawas, 'Early Islamic Oman (ca - 622/280-893): A Political History' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Durham, 1990), p. 273.
  2. ^ a b "الجمهورية نت - علم وقصيدة السقطرية - فاطمة بنت أحمد محمد الجهضمي". web.archive.org. 2014-04-27. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  3. ^ a b c d "السقطرية". web.archive.org. 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2020-10-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "فاطمة الزهراء السقطرية من اعز نساء العرب (قصيدة رهيبة جدا) من فارس حمدان". vb.shbab7.com. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  5. ^ "سقطرى المحتلة وبطولة العمانيين لتحريرها" (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  6. ^ محمد بن سليمان الحضرمي. المشرب العذب.. قراءات في الشعر العماني. Alaan Publishing Co. pp. 82–3. ISBN 9789996933677.
  7. ^ Team, FictionX. "البوابة الإعلامية -وزارة الإعلام - سلطنة عمان -أحمد بن ماجد والزهراء السقطرية في برنامج". البوابة الإعلامية -وزارة الإعلام - سلطنة عمان (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  8. ^ a b "اخبار محلية : تلفزيون عمان يثير موجة استياء في سقطرى". sahafahnet.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  9. ^ "الزهراء السقطرية / إصدار جديد للكاتب اليمني/منير طلال - الرباط بريس". www.aribatpress.com. Retrieved 2020-10-21.