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Isa. Maryam bint Imran ( Arabic: مَرْيَم بِنْت عِمْرَان, romanized : Maryam bint ʿImrān, lit. ' Mary, daughter of Imran ') is revered in Islam. The Qur'an refers to her seventy times and explicitly identifies her as the greatest woman to have ever lived. [1] [2] [3] In the Quran, her story is related in three Meccan surahs ...
Names and titles of Fatima. 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 ...
A Muslim ( مُسْلِم ), the word for a follower of Islam, [14] is the active participle of the same verb form, and means "submitter (to God)" or "one who surrenders (to God)". In the Hadith of Gabriel, Islam is presented as one part of a triad that also includes imān (faith), and ihsān (excellence). [15] [16]
Lot's daughters. The daughters of the biblical patriarch Lot appear in chapter 19 of the Book of Genesis, in two connected stories. In the first, Lot offers his daughters to a Sodomite mob; in the second, his daughters have sex with Lot without his knowledge to bear him children. Only two daughters are explicitly mentioned in Genesis, both unnamed.
Noah [a] ( / ˈnoʊ.ə /) [3] appears as the last of the Antediluvian patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions. His story appears in the Hebrew Bible ( Book of Genesis, chapters 5–9), the Quran and Baha'i writings. Noah is referenced in various other books of the Bible, including the New Testament, and in associated ...
Benjamin is a popular given name for males, derived from Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין , Binyāmīn, translating as 'son of the right [hand]' in both Hebrew and Arabic languages, although in the Samaritan Pentateuch the name appears as Binyaamem: 'son of my days'. [1] [2] Benjamin is often shortened to Ben, and sometimes to Benny, Benito ...
Khadija. Khadija, Khadeeja or Khadijah ( Arabic: خديجة, romanized : Khadīja) is an Arabic feminine given name, the name of Khadija bint Khuwaylid, first wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In 1995, it was one of the three most popular Arabic feminine names in the Muslim world, along with Fatima and Aisha.
Zuleika is a given name for females. Spelling variations include Zuleikha , Zulaikha , Zuleyka , Zuleica , Züleyha and Zuleykha . The name is of uncertain origin, [1] possibly from Persian , meaning "brilliant beauty", [2] [3] [4] or from Arabic , meaning "bright and fair".