Al-Gassaniyya (c. 10th or 11th century)[1] was an Andalusian adība (woman of letters) and poet from Bayyāna, present-day Pechina, Almería, Spain.
[2] Few details remain in the historic record about this Arab poet; her surname, the last remnant of her identity, indicates she belonged to the Gassān clan and was from Bayyāna.
[2][3] She lived perhaps during the height of economic and cultural splendor in Taifa of Almería, coinciding with the reigns of Jairán [es] and Abu Yahya Muhammad al-Mutasim [es].
This would have made her a contemporary of Zaynab al-Mariyya, another Almerian woman poet.
[1] Only six lines written by al-Gassaniyya have survived: part of a romantic prelude to a likely much longer qasida about Jairán, the king of Almeria, that emulates the work of the famous court poet Ibn Darraj al-Qastalli:[1][2][4] Did it sadden you to hear them say: "The palanquins of the women have departed"?