Fatimah

(redirected from Fatima az-Zahra)
Also found in: Thesaurus.

Related to Fatima az-Zahra: Fatima Al Zahra

Fat·i·ma

also Fat·i·mah (făt′ə-mə) 606?-632?

Daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. She married Ali, among the first to embrace Islam, and is regarded by Muslims as one of the Four Perfect Women.

Fá·ti·ma

(făt′ə-mə)

A village of west-central Portugal north-northeast of Lisbon. It became a pilgrimage site after the reported appearance of the Virgin Mary to three children in 1917.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

Fatimah - youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali; revered especially by Shiite Muslims (606-632)

Fatima

Mentioned in ?

Fatima

References in periodicals archive ?

Paying homage to Fatima az-Zahra', as the living embodiment of an exemplary Muslim woman abiding by the axioms of Shari'a law, the ambassador went on to sing the praises of Taybeh folks who "thanks to Hezbollah's sacrificing leadership, they had managed to score the victories of 2000, 2006 and prove once more their being the greatest of all invincible components of the Umma of believers." Earlier, the great grandson of the Prophet imam Khomeini, had raised the Iranians in one of the greatest of all religious-inspired revolutions as the prophets once did, he added.

Fathali: Crisis resolution in Syria is political

"This movie that has been made is outrageous and intolerable because when Fatima az-Zahra Rade-ul-anha (Prophet Mohammad's daughter) was about to depart from this world, she requested Prophet to take out her funeral procession and perform her burial in the dark.