Buthaina bint al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (Arabic: بثينة بنت المعتمد بن عباد, romanized: Buthayna bint al-Muʿtamid ibn ʿAbbād) was a poet of Al-Andalus.
[1] She was born in 1070 and was the daughter of al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, ruler of the Taifa of Seville, and his consort Al-Rumaikiyya, an Andalusian poet.
[1] After the initial fall of her father's rule, Buthaina had escaped, but was ambushed and enslaved.
[2] Buthaina revealed who she was to the son (possibly because he wanted to have sex and she refused) and stated that they must marry.
The son agreed, and sent a letter to Buthaina's father requesting permission to marry her.