Kǝminǝ, Fatma xanım - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Heß, Michael R.
Leiden
Brill
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Fatma xanım Kǝminǝ (Fāṭma khānım Kemīne, 1256-1315/1841-98), was an Azerbaijani poet from Karabagh (a historical region and former khanate in Western Azerbaijan). Her pen name, Kǝminǝ , can be translated as "the Humble One," and she is also known by the hypocoristic form of address Fatı xanım. Fatma xanım was born in the Mǝrdinli quarter of the Azerbaijani town of Şuşa (the old metropolis of the Karabagh Khanate) in 1256/1841, and her father, Ağamirzǝ bǝy (1211-83/1787-1867), was an accomplished poet who used the pen