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Also Known As Fāṭima • al-Zahrāʾ • Fatima
Born c.605 • Mecca
Died 633 • Medina
Notable Family Members spouse ʿAlī • father Muhammad • mother Khadījah • son al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī • son Ḥasan
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Statue of Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
Ibn Baṭṭūṭah
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iranian religious leader
al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
al-Ḥallāj
Islamic mystic
Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq
Shīʿite imam
al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī
Muslim theologian
al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Muslim scholar
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Muslim caliph
Rashīd Riḍā
Islamic scholar