Fatima al-Suqutriyya
Fāṭima bint Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Jahḍamī (Template:Lang-ar), known as Fāṭima al-Suqutriyya (Template:Lang-ar, Fatima the Socotrian) or 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]
Work
Al-Suqutriyya is known for the long poem attributed to her, addressed to al-Ṣalt ibn Mа̄lik. In the translation of Isam Ali Ahmad al-Rawas,[6] the opening of the poem runs
قل للإمام الذي ترجى فضائلُـــه * ابن الكرام وابن السَّادة النجــــبِ |
Tell the imam whose virtues are to be hoped for, the son of the nobleand distinguished Sayyids. |
Reception
Al-Suqutriyya is considered a lost voice in Omani literature, whose work was re-discovered in the twentieth century.[7]
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.[8] This programme became controversial when it was aired in Socotra, because it claimed that Al-Suqutriyya was from Oman.[9] A resident of the island, Abdul Karim Qabalan, called on the television company to apologise.[9] In 2016, the novelist Munir Talal published a re-telling of the poem.[10]
References
- ^ The principal scholarly accounts of al-Suqutriyya 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1982), II, 191, cited by Isam Ali Ahmad al-Rawas, 'Early Islamic Oman (ca - 622/280-893): A Political History' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Durham, 1990), p. 273.
- ^ a b "الجمهورية نت - علم وقصيدة السقطرية - فاطمة بنت أحمد محمد الجهضمي". web.archive.org. 2014-04-27. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
- ^ a b c d "السقطرية". web.archive.org. 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "فاطمة الزهراء السقطرية من اعز نساء العرب (قصيدة رهيبة جدا) من فارس حمدان". vb.shbab7.com. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
- ^ "سقطرى المحتلة وبطولة العمانيين لتحريرها" (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-10-23.
- ^ 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.
- ^ محمد بن سليمان الحضرمي. المشرب العذب.. قراءات في الشعر العماني. Alaan Publishing Co. pp. 82–3. ISBN 9789996933677.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "اخبار محلية : تلفزيون عمان يثير موجة استياء في سقطرى". sahafahnet.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-10-21.
- ^ "الزهراء السقطرية / إصدار جديد للكاتب اليمني/منير طلال - الرباط بريس". www.aribatpress.com. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
External links
- Of Oman's Poets: Al-Zahra Al-Soqatriya - Fatima bint Hamad bin Khalfan Al-Jahhamiya by Dr. Muhammad Al-Harthi