Fātiḥa, al-Sūra al-Fātiḥa

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Fātiḥa, al-Sūra al-Fātiḥa, or Fātiḥat al-Kitāb. The ‘opening sūra’ of the Qur'ān, also sometimes called Umm al-Kitāb (‘mother of the book’), since it is said to contain the essentials of the entire Qur'ān.