Dananir al-Barmakiyya
Dananir al-Barmakiyya دنانير البرمكية | |
|---|---|
| Died | c. 810s |
Resting place | Baghdad |
| Occupations | Arabic poet and singer |
| Writing career | |
| Language | Arabic |
| Period | Islamic Golden Age (Abbasid era) |
Dananir al-Barmakiyya (Arabic: دنانير البرمكية; late 8th-century – early 9th-century) was an Arabian qiyan musician, singer and poet. She is also known as the composer of the famous Kitab mujarrad al-aghani (Abridged Book of Songs).[1][2]
She was from Medina. A slave, she was sold to Yahya ibn Khalid al-Barmaki.[3] As a young slave, she was trained to become a qiyan. She was a student of the qiyan-musician Badhl, who was known for the number of songs she retained in her memory.[4] Among her instructors were Ibrahim and Ishaf al-Mawsili, Ibn Jami, Fulaih, and Badhl.[1]
Dananir is noted as one of the most famous quian-musicians. She is described as an accomplished poet, musician and singer. As a singer, she was popular with the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809), who visited his minister's house in Baghdad to hear her perform, and gave her extravagant gifts, including a necklace worth 30,000 gold coins.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Haag, John (1999). "Dananir al Barmakiyya". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications. pp. 294–295. ISBN 0787640611.
- ↑ Shiloah, Amnon (1995). Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-cultural Study. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2970-2.
- ↑ Hilary Kilpatrick:Making the Great Book of Songs: Compilation and the Author's Craft in Abū L
- ↑ Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-cultural Study
External links
[edit]- Dananeer, a 1940 Egyptian musical film with the semi-fictionalized Dananir as the title character
- Dananir (qayna of Ibn Kunnasa), another early-Abbasid-era qayna (less well-known)
- 8th-century Arab women musicians
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- People from Medina
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