Hind “Liver-Eating Woman”

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Hind bt. Utba, Meccan, wife of Abū Sufyān b. Ḥarb, mother of Umayyad caliph Muʿāwiya I, famously bit into the liver of Ḥamza, Muḥammad's uncle, after he was killed in Battle of Uḥud

Names

  • Arabic: آكلة الأكباد = Ākila al-Akbād 1

Attributes

  • Female
  • Floruit: 630

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Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 181, 190 [Arabic].
    • Hind “Liver-Eating Woman”: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 163n, 167, 177 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Laurel Kenner, “Hind “Liver-Eating Woman”” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14693.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract and gender assignment, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
  • Laurel Kenner: birth/death/floruit dates entry and Wikipedia matching
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