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Yasmine Mohammed (Arabic: يَاسَمِين مُحَمَّد, romanized: Yāsamīn Muḥammad) is a Canadian university instructor, human rights activist and author. Mohammed escaped from a forced, abusive marriage to Al-Qaeda operative Essam Marzouk [ 1 ] and became an advocate for women's rights through her non-profit organization Free ...
Safiyya bint Huyayy (Arabic: صفية بنت حيي Ṣafiyya bint Ḥuyayy) was a Jewish woman from the Banu Nadir tribe. After the Battle of Khaybar in 628, she was widowed and taken captive by the early Muslims and subsequently became Muhammad's tenth wife. [1] Like all other women who were married to Muhammad, Safiyya was known to Muslims ...
Aisha bint Abi Bakr [a] (c. 613/614 CE – July 678) was the Islamic prophet Muhammad's third and youngest wife. [8] [9]Little is known about her childhood. A preponderance of classical sources converge on Aisha being six or seven years old at the time of her marriage, and nine at the consummation; her age has been a source of ideological friction. [10]
Ibtihaj Muhammad (born December 4, 1985) is an American sabre fencer, writer, entrepreneur and activist. She is best known for being the first woman to wear hijab while competing for the United States in the Olympics Games, [ 1 ] as well as for winning an Olympic medal (bronze).
Sura 33:53, commonly called the "hijab verse," states that if "believers" want something from Muhammad's wives, they must ask "from behind a hijab"; it also forbids "believers" from marrying Muhammad's wives after him. [7] [ad] Sura 33:32–34 declare that women of Muhammad are not like other women and so specifies special etiquette for them.
Yasir Qadhi. Yasir Qadhi (pr: yaa-sur kai-dee) (formerly known by his kunya Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi) (born January 30, 1975) is a Pakistani American Muslim scholar and theologian. [8] He is dean of The Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center in Plano, Texas. [9]
Hafsa bint Umar. Hafsa bint Umar (Arabic: حفصة بنت عمر, romanized: Ḥafṣa bint ʿUmar; c. 605–665) was the fourth wife of Muhammad and a daughter of the second caliph Umar (r. 634–644). In Islamic writings, her name is thus often prefixed by the title "Mother of the Believers" (Arabic: أمّ المؤمنين, romanized: ʾumm ...
She was the wife of Ubaydah ibn al-Harith, [45] a faithful Muslim and from the tribe of Al-Muttalib, for which Muhammad had special responsibility. [46] When her husband died, Muhammad aiming to provide for her, married her in 4 A.H.