Hababa (slave)
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hababa-slave-205-14053142
title:
Hababa (slave)
text:
Hababah, was a jarya slave singer and poet, concubine of the Caliph Yazid II. Hababah was a slave, brought to the Umayyad harem of the Caliph Yazid II as a concubine. She was a non-Arab slave, trained in one of the schools for qiyan or singing girl in Medina. Yazid II noticed her during a visit to Hijaz, and his wife Sada bought Hababah as a gift for him for a price of 4,000 dinars. She entertained him as a singer and a poet. Yazid became so much in love with her that he was described as hypnoti
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description:
8th-century Arabic singer of Yazid II's Era
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hababa_(slave)
date created:
2016-12-01T21:06:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T12:03:22Z
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