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Amira (name) Arwa. Ashraqat. Asma (given name) Atefeh. Atikah. Aya (given name) Azra (name) Azza (given name)
Salman Rushdie. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie CH FRSL ( / sʌlˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi /; [ 2] born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. [ 3] His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the ...
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 ...
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 ...
ibn Baṭṭūṭah. Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī ( / ˌɪbən bætˈtuːtɑː /; 24 February 1304 – 1368/1369), [ a] commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Moroccan traveller, explorer and scholar. [ 7] Over a period of thirty years from 1325 to 1354, Ibn Battuta visited most of North Africa, the Middle East, East ...
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 ...
e. One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ ʾAlf Laylah wa-Laylah) [ 1] is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition ( c. 1706–1721 ), which ...