Ḥafṣa bint Ḥamdūn, a 4th/10th century Andalusī poetess. Our information about her life is limited to the fact that she grew up in a wealthy family in the village of Wādī al-Ḥijāra (Guadalajara). Hence she is also known as Ḥafṣa al-Ḥijāriyya (or ‘Ḥafṣa of Guadalajara’; Ibn al-Abbār, 248; Yāqūt, 2/204; Aʿlamī Ḥāʾirī, 2/20).

Sources place Ḥafṣa as living during the 4th/10th century, as she is mentioned by Ibn Faraj al-Jayyānī (d. 366/976) in his anthology Kitāb al-Ḥadāʾiq, and roughly contemporaneous with another famous Andalusī poet, ʿĀʾisha bint Aḥmad al-Qurṭubiyya (d. 4…