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Amira (name) Arwa. Ashraqat. Asma (given name) Atefeh. Atikah. Aya (given name) Azra (name) Azza (given name)
Fatima bint Muhammad ( Arabic: فَاطِمَة بِنْت مُحَمَّد, romanized : Fāṭima bint Muḥammad; 605/15–632 CE), commonly known as Fatima al-Zahra' ( Arabic: فَاطِمَة ٱلزَّهْرَاء, romanized : Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ ), was the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his wife Khadija. [ 1] Fatima's ...
Yusuf and Zulaikha. Yusuf and Zulaikha (the English transliteration of both names varies greatly) is a title given to many tellings in the Muslim world of the story of the relationship between the prophet Yusuf and Potiphar's wife. Developed primarily from the account in Sura 12 of the Qur'an, a distinct story of Yusuf and Zulaikha seems to ...
Muslim communities has a system of social stratification [1] arising from concepts other than "pure" and "impure", which are integral to the caste system in India. [2] [3] It developed as a result of relations among foreign conquerors, local upper-caste Hindus convert to Islam (ashraf, also known as tabqa-i ashrafiyya [4]) and local lower-caste converts (ajlaf), as well as the continuation of ...
Hindi कोतवाल kotwal, from Persian, from کوتوله kotwalee. a police station in India. [191] Kran Persian قران qran. the basic monetary unit of Persia from 1826 to 1932. a silver coin representing one kran. [192] Kurta Hindi & Urdu कुरता کُرتا kurta, from Persian کرتا kurtâ. a loose-fitting collarless ...
Zaynab is the name of a daughter and a granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and two of his wives: Zaynab bint Jahsh and Zaynab bint Khuzayma . In 2021, the Chicago Tribune found that Zeinab was the most popular name for girls among names unusually frequent in Michigan, "17.2 times more common than nationwide." [ 1]
The name Afghan is later recorded in the 6th century CE in the form of "Avagāṇa" [अवगाण] [122] by the Indian astronomer Varāha Mihira in his Brihat-samhita. [ 123 ] [ 124 ] "It would be unfavourable to the people of Chola, the Afghans (Avagāṇa), the white Huns and the Chinese."
Begum Rokeya. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain[ a] (9 December 1880 [ b] – 9 December 1932), commonly known as Begum Rokeya, [ c] was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator and political activist from British India. She is widely regarded as a pioneer of women's liberation in Bangladesh and India. She advocated for men and women to be ...