Mahd al-Aadiyya ( Arabic: مَهد العادية) was supposedly an Arab poet from around 4000 BCE. [1] She is unlikely to have existed: [2] Rather she is a chronicle character who is portrayed uttering the earliest example of a muzdawaj ( heroic couplet) form [1] warning the people of ʿĀd of their impending destruction by Allah, in accordance with the prophecies of the prophet Hud.
Classical Poems by Arab Women; translated by Abdullah al-Udhari, Saqi Books, 1999. ISBN 086356-096-2 [3]
Mahd al-Aadiyya ( Arabic: مَهد العادية) was supposedly an Arab poet from around 4000 BCE. [1] She is unlikely to have existed: [2] Rather she is a chronicle character who is portrayed uttering the earliest example of a muzdawaj ( heroic couplet) form [1] warning the people of ʿĀd of their impending destruction by Allah, in accordance with the prophecies of the prophet Hud.
Classical Poems by Arab Women; translated by Abdullah al-Udhari, Saqi Books, 1999. ISBN 086356-096-2 [3]