Ayesha Durrani

Ayesha Durrani was born in Kabul around 1771, the daughter of Yaʿqub Ali Khan, of the Barakzai family, and married Timur Shah Durrani, the second ruler of the dynasty. Educated in Arabic and Persian letters and in Islamic law, she wrote during her husband's lifetime and after him, under the name of Ayesha Afghan. She is regarded as the first notable Afghan woman poet to claim an Afghan origin. She died in Kabul on 11 June 1817. Several sources attribute to her the first girls' school in the country.

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• PoetryدیوانAyesha Durrani · 1882not translated into EnglishLiterature