• Delhemma or Sirat Delhemma ("Tale of Lady Delhemma") is a popular epic of the Arabic literature regarding the Arab–Byzantine wars of the Umayyad and early...
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    in the Arab raids of the next decades. Similarly, the 10th-century epic Delhemma, related to the cycle around Battal, gives a fictionalized version of the...
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  • Mazlum Kayalar, Turkish politician a character in the medieval Arabic drama Delhemma Hamid Enayat, Modern Islamic Political Thought, I.B.Tauris, 2005, p. 183...
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    "Gordafarid" (Persian: گردآفريد) in the ancient Persian epic poem The Shāhnāmeh, Delhemma in Arabic epic literature, Mulan, Camilla in the Aeneid, Belphoebe and...
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    of the longest chapters from the Quran during the prayer in the Mosque. Delhemma was a Muslim commander during the Arab–Byzantine wars. Her real name is...
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    poetess. Al-Mu'tasim is featured in the medieval Arabic and Turkish epic Delhemma, which features heavily fictionalized versions of events from the Arab–Byzantine...
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  • Decius Paulinus Decline of the Byzantine Empire Degik Dejan Dragaš Dekanos Delhemma Demarchos Demetrias Demetrios I Kantakouzenos Demetrios Angelos Doukas...
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  • figures in both Arab and Byzantine legend. In the Arab epic romance "Tale of Delhemma and al-Battal" (Sīrat Ḏāt al-Himma wa-l-Baṭṭāl), he is a major figure,...
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  • exploits became the subject of two romances, the Arabic-language "Tale of Delhemma and al-Battal" (Sīrat Ḏāt al-Himma wa-l-Baṭṭāl) and the Turkish epic tradition...
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  • Dhat al-Himma, a classic of Arabic epic poetry. It narrates the tale of Delhemma, a Muslim warrior-woman on the Byzantine frontier. Dhelhemma's story is...
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  • proposed him as an archetype for Yanis in the popular early Abbasid Arab epic Delhemma. Lilie et al. 2000, pp. 455–456. Kazhdan 1991, p. 1107. Nersessian 1987...
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