Wallada (ولادة) means "mother, child-bearer" in Arabic. **Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (994-1091)** was the **Andalusian princess-poet of Córdoba** — daughter of the Caliph al-Mustakfi, she held a literary salon for women in her palace, **embroidered her own poetry on her robes**, and conducted a famous public love affair with the poet Ibn Zaydun. **The most celebrated female poet of Al-Andalus.**
Her statue stands in Córdoba alongside Ibn Zaydun's.
Wallada reduces to one — the number of Andalusian poet-princess.