A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Radhia

by Mary Matilda Betham

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RADHIA, a Moorish Spaniard, of Corduba, the Free-Woman of King Abdelrahman,

A woman well skilled in the art of speaking; inasmuch as she wrote many volumes on Rhetoric. She is said to have lived 107 years, and to have died the 432d year of the Hegira.

Bibliothecæ Arabico–Hispanæ Escurialiensis.