Fatima (name)
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Fatima, or, in a more exact transliterion, Fāţimah (Arabic: فاطمة ), is originally an Arabic name, meaning "She who weans". It is commonly given as a female personal name among Muslims, after Fatima Zahra ("Fatima the gracious"), the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It is also used (as shortened to Mǎ (馬)) as a common family name for Chinese Muslims. The Persian transliteration is Fatemeh.
The town of Fátima in Portugal was named after a Moorish princess. It was the site of a famous Marian apparition in 1917, after which it achieved some popularity as a female personal name among Roman Catholics.
Other people named Fatima include:
- Fatimah bint Amr grandmother of Muhammad
- Fatima Jinnah sister of Pakistan's first governor-general, Muhammed Ali Jinnah
- Fatima bint Hizam, mother of Abbas ibn Ali and a wife of the first Shia Imam.
- Fatimah bint Husayn, daughter of Husayn bin Ali
- Fatimah bint al-Khattab
- Fatimah bint Musa al-Kazim
[edit] See also
- List of Arabic names
- Fatima The Gracious (book) biography of Fatima Zahra
- Wikipedia pages beginning with "Fatima"
