Umm Ḥabība

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Daughter of Abū Sufyān, sister of Muʿāwiya, wife of Muḥammad

Names

Arabic: أم حبيبة = Umm Ḥabība 1

Attributes

Female
Death: 665

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1	before 843 CE	c. 820-843 CE	687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE	1993

Sources

1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 176, 361 [Arabic].
- Umm Ḥabība: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 161 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, Jessica Mutter, and Laurel Kenner, “Umm Ḥabība” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14886.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
Jessica Mutter: abstract and gender assignment, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
Laurel Kenner: birth/death/floruit dates entry and Wikipedia matching

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