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Fatima (605/15-632 CE) was daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and wife to his cousin Ali, the fourth of the Rashidun caliphs and the first Shia Imam. [1] Fatima has been compared to Mary, mother of Jesus, especially in Shia Islam. [2] [3] Muhammad is said to have regarded her as the best of women [4] [5] and the dearest person to him. [6]
The inclusion of women in university settings has increased the presence of women scholars. [2] Akram Nadwi authored the largest compilation on female Islamic scholars, titled Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa, spanning over two decades and containing a repository of more than 10,000 entries. [3] [4]
Sumayya is the personal name of ʿAmmār's mother, the same person can also be identified by his father's personal name "ʿAmmār ibn Yasir". In later Islamic periods the nasab was an important tool in determining a child's father by means of describing paternity in a social (i.e. to whom was the mother legally married during the conception of ...
Bibi, also spelled Bebe, is frequently used as a respectful title for Muslim, Christian and Sikh women in South Asia when added to the given name. [1] [2] Bibi, like Begum, is used as a surname by many women in the region. [3] In Anglo-Indian, the term bibi came to be seen as a synonym for mistress. [2]
Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention, cultural names and ancestral names. In Pakistan a person is either referred by his or her Islamic name or from tribe name (if it is specified), respectively.
The baqarah (Arabic: بَقَرْة, cow) of the Israelites [3]; The dhiʾb (Arabic: ذِئب, wolf) that Jacob feared could attack Joseph, and who was blamed for his disappearance [22] [23]
Tuba (also Anglicised as Tooba, Touba, or less frequently Toba; Arabic: طُوبَى, romanized: Ṭūbā, lit. 'blessedness' [1]) is a female name of Arabic origin.It has been common since the 1970s in Turkey, [2] where it is often spelt Tuğba (and that spelling has the same pronunciation as Tuba in Turkish), [2] but it has also been used in other parts of the Muslim world, notably in ...
If the person has more than one given name, one of them is chosen as the person's most called name, by which he is called or referred to informally. Generally for Muslim males, Muhammad, the name of the prophet of Islam, is chosen to be the person's first given name, if he has more than one. Because of the prevalence of this practice, this name ...