Azza al-Mayla
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title:
Azza al-Mayla
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Azza al-Mayla was a Medinan Qiyan musician, composer, singer, poet and teacher. She was a mawla of the Ansar tribe, which mean she was a freedwoman-client who converted to Islam, which was the usual background for free professional musical artists in the Caliphate. She and her colleague Jamila was one of only two free female musicians known to have managed their own majlis, which was a form of entertainment sessions or salon which was at this time still acceptable for women and men to attend tog
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Arabic female poet of Umayyad period (died 705)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azza_al-Mayla
date created:
2021-03-06T02:22:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T11:45:13Z
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