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Balkhi, Rabe‘ah

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Rabe‘ah Balkhī was a tenth-century poetess from Balkh, Khorasan, in what is modern-day Afghanistan, during the later end of the Samanid period. Few details of her life are recorded but some of her poems have survived.

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  1. St John’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Munazza Ebtikar

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  1. Department of English, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA

    Michelle M. Sauer

  2. School of Literature & Languages, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

    Diane Watt

  3. College of Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, Mumbles Swansea, UK

    Liz Herbert McAvoy

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    Diane Watt

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Ebtikar, M. (2022). Balkhi, Rabe‘ah. In: Sauer, M.M., Watt, D., McAvoy, L.H. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76219-3_33-1

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