Umm Hakim bint Yahya

Wife of Umayyad caliph Hisham
Umm Hakim bint Yahya
أم حكيم بنت يحيى
Zawjat al-khalifa
Consort of the Umayyad caliph
Tenure724 – 742/43
BornSyria/Hejaz, Umayyad Caliphate
DiedDamascus, Umayyad Caliphate
SpouseHisham
Children
  • Maslama
  • Mu'awiya
  • Sulayman
  • Yazid al-Afqam
Names
Umm Hakim bint Yahya ibn al-Hakam
DynastyUmayyad
FatherYahya ibn al-Hakam
MotherZaynab bint Abd al-Rahman
ReligionIslam

Umm Hakim bint Yahya (Arabic: أم حكيم بنت يحيى) was an 8th-century Umayyad noblewoman and famous principal wife of the tenth Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik.

Life

At first, One of Yahya's daughters, Amina, was wed to Abd al-Malik's son, Hisham.[1] however Amina died and Hisham married Yahya other daughter, Umm Hakim.

Umm Hakim was Hisham's favored wife, the daughter of Yahya ibn al-Hakam, brother of Hisham's grandfather caliph Marwan I (r. 684–685),[2] and Zaynab bint Abd al-Rahman, the granddaughter of the Syrian conquest commander al-Harith ibn Hisham of the Banu Makhzum.[3] Umm Hakim, like her mother, was well known for her beauty and love for drink.[4] She gave Hisham five sons,[5] including Sulayman,[6] Maslama,[7] Yazid al-Afqam,[8] and Mu'awiya.[9]

Umm Hakim also lobbied for her son Maslama's succession.[10] during her husband Hisham's reign.

References

  1. ^ Robinson, p. 153.
  2. ^ Kilpatrick 2003, pp. 72, 82.
  3. ^ Ahmed 2010, p. 56.
  4. ^ Hillenbrand 1989, p. 90, notes 455 and 456.
  5. ^ Blankinship 1989, p. 65.
  6. ^ Intagliata 2018, p. 141.
  7. ^ Hillenbrand 1989, p. 90.
  8. ^ Judd 2008, p. 453.
  9. ^ Ahmed 2010, p. 78.
  10. ^ Marsham 2009, p. 131, note 30.

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  • Blankinship, Khalid Yahya, ed. (1989). The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXV: The End of Expansion: The Caliphate of Hishām, A.D. 724–738/A.H. 105–120. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-569-9.
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  • Judd, Steven (July–September 2008). "Reinterpreting al-Walīd b. Yazīd". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 128 (3): 439–458. JSTOR 25608405.*Marsham, Andrew (2009). The Rituals of Islamic Monarchy: Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-2512-3.