Zainab Al-Shahariya

Zaynab bint Muhammad al-Shahariyyah, in Arabic: زينب الشهارية (died 1702) was a Yemeni poet and Sufi writer, who was born in the city of Shaharah. She studied science and logic, as well as astronomy and literature. Her poetry is recorded in a literary letter to her first husband Ali bin Imam Al-Mutawakkil Ismail, as well as in a collection of sixteen works collated alongside a biography of her life by Abdul Salam al-Wajeeh. Her poetry shows her political influence; she practiced law in later life. Whilst her works were not compiled into a diwan they do have "a respectable place in Yemeni literature".