"575"^^ . . "Najd, Arabia"@en . . "Tum\u0101\u1E0Dir bint \u02BFAmr ibn al-\u1E24arth ibn al-Shar\u012Bd al-Sulam\u012Byah (), usually simply referred to as al-Khans\u0101\u2019 () (translated from Arabic as either \"gazelle\" or \"short-nosed\") was a 7th-century Arabic poet. She was born and raised in the Najd region (the central region of modern-day Saudi Arabia). She was a contemporary of Muhammad, and eventually converted to Islam."@en . "\u0627\u0644\u062E\u0646\u0633\u0627\u0621"@en . . . . . "Al-Khansa"@en . . "Al-Khansa"@en . . . . . . . . "Al-Khansa\u2019, Drawing by Kahlil Gibran, al-Funun 2, no. 10"@en . . . . . . "Tum\u0101\u1E0Dir bint \u02BFAmr ibn al-\u1E24arth ibn al-Shar\u012Bd al-Sulam\u012Byah (), usually simply referred to as al-Khans\u0101\u2019 () (translated from Arabic as either \"gazelle\" or \"short-nosed\") was a 7th-century Arabic poet. She was born and raised in the Najd region (the central region of modern-day Saudi Arabia). She was a contemporary of Muhammad, and eventually converted to Islam. In her time, the role of a female poet was to write elegies for the dead and perform them for the tribe in public oral competitions. Al-Khansa\u2019 won respect and fame in these competitions with her elegies for her brothers, \u1E62akhr and Mu\u02BF\u0101wiyah, who had died in battle. She is the best known female poet in Arabic literature."@en . . . .