Umm ‘Alī Taqiyya bint Abi’l-Faraj Ghayth b.
‘Abd al-Salām b. Muḥammad b. Ja‘far al-Sulamī al-Armanāzī al-Ṣūrī (أم علي تقية بنت أبى الفرج غيث بن على بن عبد السلام بن محمد بن جافر السلامية الأرمنازية الصورية), also known as Sitt al-Ni‘m (ست النعم) (505/1111 in Damascus 505/1111 – 570/1183–84, probably in Egypt), was a poet and scholar, the most prominent female student of Abū Ṭāhir al-Silafī, the leading educator in Egypt in his day.
Several sources acknowledge her as woman of talent and wit, who composed qaṣīdas and short poems.
'[1] Taqiyya's husband was Fāḍil b. Ḥamdūn al-Ṣūrī (born Damascus 490/1097, died Alexandria 568/1172), himself a noted scholar; with him she had the son Abu’l-Ḥasan ‘Alī b. Fāḍil b. Ḥamdūn al-Ṣūrī (b. Ṣūr, d. 603/1206), who also became a noted scholar.
Among the few poems of Taqiyya's that survive is an epigram on wine the she sent to Al-Muzaffar Umar: There is nothing good in wine, though a paradisial perk It ferments the sane, bonkers his mind and instils in him a falling fear.When al-Muzaffar responded that Taqiyya was speaking from experience, she composed a poem on war, to show that experience was not required to compose poetry on a theme.