Maria al-Qibtiyya
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title:
Maria al-Qibtiyya
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Māriyya bint Shamʿūn, better known as Māriyyah al-Qibṭiyyah or al-Qubṭiyya, or Maria the Copt, died 637, was an Egyptian woman who, along with her sister Sirin bint Shamun, was given to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 628 by Al-Muqawqis, a Christian governor of Alexandria, during the territory's Sasanian occupation as slaves. She spent the rest of her life in Medina and had a son, Ibrahim with Muhammad. The son died as an infant and she died almost five years later. Al-Maqrizi says that she was
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Muhammad's concubine or thirteenth wife (d. 637)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_al-Qibtiyya
date created:
2004-10-16T12:10:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T11:33:46Z
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