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

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1	before 843 CE	c. 820-843 CE	687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE	1993

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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