Mutayyam al-Hashimiyya

Mutayyam al-Hashimiyya
Mutayyam al-Hashimiyya
متيم_الهشامية
Occupations	Poet, singer
Partner	Ali ibn Hisham

Mutayyam al-Hāshimiyya (fl. 9th century CE) was a singer and poet in the Abbasid Caliphate. She was ranked third by contemporaries, with only the singers Ishaq al-Mawsili and Aluya above her.^[1]^[2]

Mutayyam al-Hashimiyya was born in al-Basra. She studied under the eminent musician Ibrahim al-Mawsili and his son Ishaq al-Mawsili^[1]^[3] as well as the singer Badhl al-Kubra.^[4]

She was purchased by ʿAlī ibn Hishām, governor of Baghdad during the Fourth Fitna. (The name "al-Hāshimiyya" marked her as part of his household.) They had a daughter, Ṣafiyya, and two sons, Muḥammad and Hārūn.^[5]

She sang at the courts of both Caliphs al-Ma'mun and al-Mu'tasim.^[1] al-Ma'mun was impressed by her and engaged her in a poetry challenge. When al-Ma'mun imprisoned ʿAlī ibn Hishām, Mutayyam pled for his release in verse. al-Ma'mun did not release him, but instead executed ʿAlī ibn Hishām and made her a free woman.^[5]

Her songs were included in the anthology Kitab al-Aghani assembled by Abū al-Farāj al-Isfahānī.^[6] Zaynab Fawwaz included her in her collection of biographies of famous women, al-Durr al-manthur fi tabaqat rabbat al-khudur (The Book of Scattered Pearls Regarding Categories of Women).^[7]

References

1 2 3 Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers. Internet Archive. New York : Books & Music USA. ISBN 978-0-9617485-2-4.
↑ Ribera, Julián (1970). Music in ancient Arabia and Spain : being La música de las Cantigas. Internet Archive. New York, Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-71622-5.
↑ Farmer, Henry George (1929). A History Of Arabian Music. Osmania University, Digital Library Of India. Luzac And Company.
↑ Encyclopedia of Islam, Volume 12. 1986-02-01.
1 2 Elmeligi, Wessam, ed. (2019). The poetry of Arab women from the pre-Islamic age to Andalusia. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-429-83632-9.
↑ Shiloah, Amnon (1979). The theory of music in Arabic writings (c. 900–1900) : descriptive catalogue of manuscripts in libraries of Europe and the U.S.A. Internet Archive. München : G. Henle Verlag. ISBN 978-3-87328-031-1.
↑ Booth, Marilyn (2015). Classes of ladies of cloistered spaces: writing feminist history through biography in fin-de-siècle Egypt. Edinburgh: Edinburgh university press. ISBN 978-0-7486-9486-0.

[:0-1] 1 2 3 Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers. Internet Archive. New York : Books & Music USA. ISBN 978-0-9617485-2-4.

[2] Ribera, Julián (1970). Music in ancient Arabia and Spain : being La música de las Cantigas. Internet Archive. New York, Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-71622-5.

[3] Farmer, Henry George (1929). A History Of Arabian Music. Osmania University, Digital Library Of India. Luzac And Company.

[4] Encyclopedia of Islam, Volume 12. 1986-02-01.

[:1-5] 1 2 Elmeligi, Wessam, ed. (2019). The poetry of Arab women from the pre-Islamic age to Andalusia. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-429-83632-9.

[6] Shiloah, Amnon (1979). The theory of music in Arabic writings (c. 900–1900) : descriptive catalogue of manuscripts in libraries of Europe and the U.S.A. Internet Archive. München : G. Henle Verlag. ISBN 978-3-87328-031-1.

[7] Booth, Marilyn (2015). Classes of ladies of cloistered spaces: writing feminist history through biography in fin-de-siècle Egypt. Edinburgh: Edinburgh university press. ISBN 978-0-7486-9486-0.

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