Hamda bint Ziyad al-Muaddib
Ḥamda bint Ziyād al-Muʾaddib (Arabic: حمدة بنت زياد المؤدب) was a twelfth-century Andalusian poet from Guadix,[1] sister of Zaynab bint Ziyad al-Muʾaddib,[2] and described by the seventeenth-century diplomat Mohammed ibn abd al-Wahab al-Ghassani as 'one of the poetesses of the Andalus.She is famous in that region and among all the poets and poetesses of the country.'[3] Her father was a teacher (mu'addib),[4] and she is described as being one of 'the brotherless only daughters of well-off and cultured fathers who gave them the education that they would have given to their male children, if they had had any'.[5] She is one of relatively few named Moorish women poets.One example of Hamda's work is the poem referred to by A. J. Arberry as 'Beside a Stream', given here in his translation:[6] This can be compared with Nabil Matar's translation of the same poem:[7]