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Also Known As Fatima • al-Zahrāʾ • Fāṭima
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
Engraving of Ibn Battuta in Egypt, standing on a decorated stone block with another man, overlooking ancient Egyptian columns and palm trees in the background.
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
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Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
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al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
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Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
Aga Khan IV
Aga Khan IV
Nizārī imam
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini
Iranian religious leader
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al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
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al-Ḥallāj
Islamic mystic
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Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
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al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
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Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
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Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq
Shiʿi imam
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al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
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Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
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Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī
Muslim theologian
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al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Muslim scholar
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ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Muslim caliph