Also known as Algasaniya
Al-Gassaniyya () was an Andalusian adība (woman of letters) and poet from Bayyāna, present-day Pechina, Almería, Spain.
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Al-Gassaniyya () was an Andalusian adība (woman of letters) and poet from Bayyāna, present-day Pechina, Almería, Spain.
Few details remain in the historic record about this Arab poet; her surname, the last remnant of her identity, indicates she belonged to the Gassān clan and was from Bayyāna. She lived perhaps during the height of economic and cultural splendor in Taifa of Almería, coinciding with the reigns of and . This would have made her a contemporary of Zaynab al-Mariyya, another Almerian woman poet.
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