Early Women Writers

Layla Al-Khyaliyya

MD Iraq

d. 709

She was born into the Banu 'Umir tribe and made her name writing elegies for important caliphates of her time. Unable to marry her lover Tawba ibn Humayyir, Layla instead had many children with another poet.

Dīwān Laylá al-Akhyalīyah

Arabic

Lyric - Elegy