Islam
See also: Women in Islam- Aisha bint Talha—Eminent scholar
- A'isha—Wife of Muhammad and the narrator of largest number of hadith
- Maryam-mother of Isa (Jesus)
- Amara bin Al-Rahman—Exemplary woman jurist
- Asma bint Abu Bakr—Narrator of Hadith
- Asiya- Wife of the Pharaoh, Foster mother of Mosa (Moses)
- Sara- Wife of Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham)
- Bilqis—Queen of Sheba
- Fatima Zahra—the youngest daughter of Muhammad and Khadijah.
- Fatimah bint Qays—Famous scholar
- Khadijah—First convert to Islam, first wife of Muhammad
- Nusaibah bint Ka'b al-Ansariyah—Famous warrior
- Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya—Important figure in the development of Sufism
- Rabia—Most important of the early Sufi poets
- Sayyida Nafisa—Scholar
- Sumayyah bint Khabbab—First martyr of Islam, seventh convert to it
- Ukhtul Mazni—Highly placed scholar of Islamic jurisprudence
- Umm Ad Darda—Expert theologian
- Umm 'Atiyyah—Scholar of Islamic jurisprudence
- Umm Salamah—Narrator of Hadith
- Umm Salim—Famous scholar
- Umrah Bint Abdu Rahman—Eminent theologian and famous scholar
- Yochebed - Mother of Musa (Moses)
- Tynetta Muhammad - theologian of the Nation of Islam
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Famous quotes containing the word islam:
“Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.”
—Basil Bunting (1900–1985)
“Awareness of the stars and their light pervades the Koran, which reflects the brightness of the heavenly bodies in many verses. The blossoming of mathematics and astronomy was a natural consequence of this awareness. Understanding the cosmos and the movements of the stars means understanding the marvels created by Allah. There would be no persecuted Galileo in Islam, because Islam, unlike Christianity, did not force people to believe in a “fixed” heaven.”
—Fatima Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist. Islam and Democracy, ch. 9, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (Trans. 1992)
“During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved. From the lifetime of its founder, Islam was the state, and the identity of religion and government is indelibly stamped on the memories and awareness of the faithful from their own sacred writings, history, and experience.”
—Bernard Lewis, U.S. Middle Eastern specialist. Islam and the West, ch. 8, Oxford University Press (1993)