Umm ‘Alī Taqiyya bint Abi’l-Faraj Ghayth b. ‘Alī b. ‘Abd al-Salām b. Muḥammad b. Ja‘far al-Sulamī al-Armanāzī al-Ṣūrī (), also known as Sitt al-Ni‘m () (born Damascus 505/1111, died, probably in Egypt, 579/1183-4), was a poet and scholar, the most prominent female student of Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, the leading educator in Egypt in his day. 'Several sources acknowledge her as woman of talent and wit, who composed qaṣīdas and short poems.' Taqiyya's husband was Fāḍil b. Ḥamdūn al-Ṣūrī (born Damascus 490/1097, died Alexandria 568/1172), himself a noted scholar; with him she had the son Abu’l-Ḥasan ‘Alī b. Fāḍil b. Ḥamdūn al-Ṣūrī (b. Ṣūr, d. 603/1206), who also became a noted scholar. Among the few poems of Taqiyya's that survive is an epigram on wine the she sent to Al-Muzaffar Umar: There is nothing good in wine, though a paradisial perk It ferments the sane, bonkers his mind and instils in him a falling fear. When al-Muzaffar responded that Taqiyya was speaking from experience, she composed a poem on war, to show that experience was not required to compose poetry on a theme. References 1111 births 1183 deaths Women poets from the Abbasid Caliphate Arabic-language women poets Arabic-language poets 12th-century women writers 12th-century Arabic writers 12th-century women from the Abbasid Caliphate