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Fatima (religion)

Fatima

Myths and Legends of the World | 2001 | Copyright

Fatima

Born in the holy city of Mecca in Arabia in about 605, Fatima was the daughter of the prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam. Generations of Muslims have revered her as one of four "perfect women." (They also place Mary, the mother of Jesus, in this group.) Fatima is especially important to the Shiite sect of Islam.

Muhammad had other sons and daughters, but they all died young or failed to produce heirs. Fatima stayed close to her father and nursed him at his deathbed. When the prophet died, a split developed over Muslim leadership. Fatima's support for her husband Ali's claim as leader led to the establishment of the Shiite sect. Later Shiites viewed Hasan and Husayn, the sons of Fatima and Ali, as the rightful heirs to Muhammad and the Islamic tradition.

prophet one who claims to have received divine messages or insights

Although Fatima was a historical figure, many aspects of her life took on the dimensions of myth, and she has become the subject of various legends. In one, for example, Fatima was a virgin who had three sons, and she possessed miraculous powers. Some stories describe her as the incarnation, or human form, of the Arabian moon goddess. Fatima appears as the holy woman in a story about Aladdin, Thousand and One Nights.

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Fāṭima

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | Copyright

Fāṭima. Daughter of Muḥammad and Khadīja who married Muḥammad's nephew ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib. She bore him two sons, al-Ḥusayn and al-Ḥasan, and two daughters. Al-Ḥusayn, the younger son, was killed at the battle of Karbalā’ (680), and this defeat, the ‘martyrdom’ of al-Ḥusayn and his companions, marked the real beginning of the Shīʿa party and sect. Numerous legends have grown up around the person of Fāṭima, especially among the Shīʿa; Muḥammad is said to have named her as one of the four best women of Paradise, the others being Maryam (Mary), Khadīja, and the wife of Pharaoh.
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Fátima

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Fátima , hamlet, W central Portugal, in Beira Litoral. At the nearby Cova da Iria is the national shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima. This became a great Roman Catholic center of pilgrimage after the six reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary to three shepherd children, May 13–Oct. 13, 1917. An impressive basilica was begun in 1928 and consecrated in 1953, and the Church of the Holy Trinity, one of the largest churches in the world, was consecrated in 2007.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | Copyright

Fatima. Shrine of the Virgin Mary in central Portugal. It was the scene of six appearances of Mary to three shepherd children from 13 May to 13 Oct. 1917. At the last of these, the Virgin revealed that she was Our Lady of the Rosary. In 1982 John Paul II visited the shrine to give thanks for his surviving the attempt on his life. The reported ‘secret’ made known in the apparitions has not been disclosed publicly, despite many accounts of what it is.
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Fátima

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Fátima, Portugal Named after a 12th‐century Moorish princess who married a Portuguese nobleman after she had converted to Christianity. She is buried in the area. She will have been named after Fatima (c.605–33), the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad†, who founded Islam. Since 1917, when three children saw a vision of the Virgin Mary, Fátima has been one of the world's greatest shrines to the Virgin Mary and a place of pilgrimage.
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Fatima

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Fatima1 (c.606–32 ad), youngest daughter of the prophet Muhammad and wife of the fourth caliph, Ali. The descendants of Muhammad trace their lineage through her; she is revered especially by Shiite Muslims as the mother of the imams Hasan and Husayn.

The Fatimid dynasty, which ruled in parts of northern Africa, Egypt, and Syria from 909 to 1171, and founded Cairo as its capital in 969, is said to descend from her.
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Fāṭima

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Fāṭima ♀ (Arabic) ‘Abstainer (from forbidden things)’, i.e. chaste; also ‘weaner’, i.e. one who cares for her children. This was the name of the Prophet's favourite daughter, wife of ‘Ali ibn-Abi-Ṭālib, fourth rightly guided caliph, and mother of Ḥasan and Ḥusayn.
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Fatima

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Fatima ♀ Usually a Muslim name, bestowed in honour of Muhammad's daughter. However, it is occasionally borne by Roman Catholics in honour of ‘Our Lady of Fatima’, who in 1917 appeared to three shepherd children from the village of Fatima, near Leiria in western Portugal.
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Fatima , 616?–633?, daughter of Muhammad by his first wife, Khadija. Fatima was the wife of Ali , the mother of Hasan and Husein, and reputedly the ancestress of the Fatimids. She is revered by all branches of the Islamic faith and is the subject of many mysteries and legends.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | | Copyright

Fatima. A place of pilgrimage in Portugal. In 1917 three illiterate children saw visions of a woman, who declared herself to be ‘Our Lady of the Rosary’, told them to recite the Rosary daily, and asked for a chapel to be built in her honour.
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Fatima

World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

Fatima (606–32) Daughter of the prophet Muhammad, and wife of Ali. She is revered by the Shi'ite sect of Islam, who believe that Abu Bakr usurped Ali. See also Fatimid
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Fátima

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Fátima3 a village in Portugal, where in 1917 it was reported that apparitions of the Virgin Mary appeared; it is now the site of a Marian shrine.
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Fatima2 name of the last and surviving wife of Bluebeard.
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Fatima

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

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