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Al-Andalus poet and teacher
1135 – 1191
Ḥafṣa bint al-Ḥājj ar-Rakūniyya (حفصة بنت الحاج الركونية, born c. 1135, died AH 586/1190–91 CE) was an aristocrat and poet of 12th century Granada, recognized as the last major female poet from al-Andalus and one of the most celebrated female poets of Andalusi literature. She is also remembered as a teacher in the Almohad court; Ibn al-Khatib later described her as ustādhat waqtihā (أستاذة وقتها 'the professor of her time').
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