Maysun bint Bahdal information

Names
	Maysun bint Bahdal ibn Unayf

Maysun bint Bahdal
Maysun bint Bahdal
Consort of the Umayyad caliph
Tenure	661 – 680
Died	January/March 680; Damascus, Syria, Umayyad Caliphate
Spouse	Mu'awiya I
Children	Yazid I
Names
Names
	Maysun bint Bahdal ibn Unayf
Dynasty	Kalb tribe (by birth) ; Umayyad (by marriage)
Father	Bahdal ibn Unayf

Maysun bint Bahdal (Arabic: ميسون بنت بحدل, romanized: Maysūn bint Baḥdal) was a wife of caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680), and as mother of his successor and son Yazid I (r. 680–683). She belonged to a ruling clan of the Banu Kalb, a tribe which dominated the Syrian steppe. Mu'awiya's marriage to her sealed his alliance with the tribe.

Maysun also enjoys a reputation as one of the earliest attested Arabic-language women poets.^[1] However, that reputation seems to belong to another woman of a similar name, Maysūn bint Jandal.

^ E.g. Salahuddin Khuda Bukhsh, Studies: Indian and Islamic (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1927 p. 17.

[1] E.g. Salahuddin Khuda Bukhsh, Studies: Indian and Islamic (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1927 p. 17.

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