Adschiba
1218), was a qiyan poet and musician, active in Ayyubid Egypt. She was a member of the Ayyubid harem as the royal slave concubine of Sultan Al-Kamil. Adschība was described as a beautiful and accomplished singer.
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1218), was a qiyan poet and musician, active in Ayyubid Egypt. She was a member of the Ayyubid harem as the royal slave concubine of Sultan Al-Kamil. Adschība was described as a beautiful and accomplished singer.
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Her enslaver, the fourth Ayyubid Sultan Al-Kamil Muhammad al-Malik, was claimed to have been deeply in love with her and often summoned her to his bed. She reportedly attended in his audiences, but hidden behind a curtain as well as openly, and played the harp and the frame drum. In Classical Arabic literature, she is included in Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār by Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari (1301–1349), in the main work describing famous slave singers of history.
Adschiba is a slave, musician and singer.
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- 1.Yasemin Gökpinar: Der ṭarab der Sängersklavinnen: Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār von Ibn Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī (gest. 749/1349): Textkritische Edition des 10. Kapitels Ahl ʿilm al-mūsīqī mit kommentierter Übersetzung, Ergon Verlag, Baden-Baden 2021, S. 269.
- 2.Yasemin Gökpinar: Der ṭarab der Sängersklavinnen: Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār von Ibn Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī (gest. 749/1349): Textkritische Edition des 10. Kapitels Ahl ʿilm al-mūsīqī mit kommentierter Übersetzung, Ergon Verlag, Baden-Baden 2021, S. 268–277.
- 3.Yasemin Gökpinar: Der ṭarab der Sängersklavinnen: Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār von Ibn Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī (gest. 749/1349): Textkritische Edition des 10. Kapitels Ahl ʿilm al-mūsīqī mit kommentierter Übersetzung, Ergon Verlag, Baden-Baden 2021, S. 268–271.
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