Fadl al-Sha'irah

Fadl al-Shaʻirah
فضل الشاعرة
BornAl-Yamama, Abbasid Caliphate
Diedc. 870/871
Samarra, Abbasid Caliphate
Resting placeSamarra
Pen nameFadl
OccupationPoet
LanguageArabic
NationalityCaliphate
PeriodIslamic Golden Age
(Early Abbasid era)
Spouseal-Mutawakkil

Fadl al-Qaysi or Faḍl al-Shāʻirah (Arabic: فضل الشاعرة; "Faḍl the Poet"; d. 871) was one of "three early ʻAbbasid singing girls, particularly famous for their poetry" and is one of the pre-eminent medieval Arabic female poets whose work survives. She was a concubine of caliph Al-Mutawakkil.