Hamda bint Ziyad al-Muaddib

Ḥamda bint Ziyād al-Muʾaddib was a twelfth-century Andalusian poet from Guadix, sister of Zaynab bint Ziyad al-Muʾaddib, 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.' Her father was a teacher, 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'. She is one of relatively few named Moorish women poets.

Example

One example of Hamda's work is the poem referred to by A. J. Arberry as 'Beside a Stream', given here in his translation:
This can be compared with Nabil Matar's translation of the same poem: