Inan bint Abdallah
Inan bint Abdallah عنان بنت عبد الله | |
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| Died | c. 810 or 841 Iraq |
| Resting place | Iraq |
| Pen name | Inan |
| Occupation | Arabic Poet |
| Language | Arabic |
| Nationality | Abbasid Caliphate |
| Period | Islamic Golden Age (Abbasid era) |
ʽInān bint ʽAbdallāh (Arabic: عنان بنت عبد الله, died 841) was a prominent poet and qiyan of the Abbasid period, even characterised by the tenth-century historian Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahāni as the slave-woman poet of foremost significance in the Arabic tradition. She was later the concubine of Harun al-Rashid.