Qasmuna

Qasmūna bint Ismāʿil (Arabic: قسمونة بنت إسماعيل; fl. 11th or 12th century CE), sometimes called Xemone,^[1]^[2] was an Iberian Jewish poet. She is the only female Arabic-language Jewish poet attested from medieval Andalusia, and, along with Sarah of Yemen and the anonymous wife of Dunash ben Labrat,^[3]^[4] one of few known female Jewish poets throughout the Middle Ages.

^ Gottheil, Richard; Montgomery, Mary W. (1904). "Ḳasmunah (sometimes called Xemone)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 451.
^ Weinfeld, Eduardo (1948). Enciclopedia judaica castellana, el pueblo judio en el pasado y el presente; su historia, su religión, sus costumbres, su literatura, su arte, sus hombres, su situación en el mundo (in Spanish). Vol. 6. México: Enciclopedia judaica castellana. p. 201.
^ Qasmuna bint Ismal'il (2007). "Ah, Gazelle". In Cole, Peter (ed.). The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492. Translated by Cole, Peter. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 364.
^ Taitz, Emily; Henry, Sondra; Tallan, Cheryl (2003). "Sarah of Yemen". The JPS Guide to Jewish Women: 600 B.C.E. to 1900 C.E. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society. pp. 57–59.

[1] Gottheil, Richard; Montgomery, Mary W. (1904). "Ḳasmunah (sometimes called Xemone)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 451.

[2] Weinfeld, Eduardo (1948). Enciclopedia judaica castellana, el pueblo judio en el pasado y el presente; su historia, su religión, sus costumbres, su literatura, su arte, sus hombres, su situación en el mundo (in Spanish). Vol. 6. México: Enciclopedia judaica castellana. p. 201.

[cole-3] Qasmuna bint Ismal'il (2007). "Ah, Gazelle". In Cole, Peter (ed.). The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492. Translated by Cole, Peter. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 364.

[4] Taitz, Emily; Henry, Sondra; Tallan, Cheryl (2003). "Sarah of Yemen". The JPS Guide to Jewish Women: 600 B.C.E. to 1900 C.E. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society. pp. 57–59.

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