Fâṭima, Daughter of Muhammad: Second Edition 9781463239435

The only child of Muhammad to survive him, Fatima was from early times taken up by Shî’a Islam, for whose adherents she

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Table of contents :
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
SYSTEM OF TRANSLITERATION
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE. FÂṬIMA IN HER CONTEXT. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
CHAPTER TWO. PART ONE: THE SUPERNATURAL QUALITIES IN THE ANNUNCIATION AND BIRTH OF FÂṬIMA IN SHÎ‛Î TRADITION, TEACHING AND PIETY
CHAPTER TWO. PART TWO: FÂṬIMA THE VIRGIN: TRADITIONS, TEACHING AND PIETY SURROUNDING THE CONCEPTION AND BIRTH OF AL-HUSAYN
CHAPTER THREE. PART ONE: THE MOTIF OF GRIEF AND SUFFERING IN THE LIFE OF FÂṬIMA AMONG THE 'PEOPLE OF THE HOUSE’
CHAPTER THREE. PART TWO: THE INTERCESSORY PREROGATIVES OF FÂṬIMA
CHAPTER FOUR. PART ONE: NOTES ON THE CATHOLIC THEOLOGY OF MARY
CHAPTER FOUR. PART TWO: THE POSSIBILITY OF PARALLELS BETWEEN MARY AND FÂṬIMA
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX A: THE NAMES OF FÂṬIMA
APPENDIX B: THE PROTEST OF FÂṬIMA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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Fâṭima, Daughter of Muhammad

Islamic History and Thought

 Series Editor Series Editorial Board Peter Adamson AGDPVRQ Beatrice Gründler %HDWULFH *UXHQGOHU Ahmad $KPDG Khan .KDQ

Jack Tannous TDQQRXV Isabel Toral-Niehoff ,VDEHO7oral-Niehoff Manolis Manolis Ulbricht Ulbricht

Jack Tannous

Advisory Editorial Board Islamic History and Thought provides a platform for scholarly research on any geographic areaUlbricht within the expansive Islamic Manolis Binyamin Abrahamov Konrad world, stretching from the Mediterranean to Hirschler China, and dated to Asadthe Q.eve Ahmed Howard-Johnston any period from of Islam untilJames the early modern era. This Jan Just Witkam Mehmetcan Akpinar Maher Jarrar(Arabic, Persian, series contains original monographs, translations Syriac, Greek, and Latin) and edited volumes. Abdulhadi Alajmi Marcus Milwright Mohammad-Ali Amir-Moezzi Harry Munt Arezou Azad Gabriel Said Reynolds Massimo Campanini Massimo Campanini Walid A. Saleh Agostino Series Editorial Board: Godefroid de Callataÿ Jens Scheiner Maria Conterno Delfina Serrano Peter AdamsonFarhad Daftary Farhad Daftary Georges Tamer Beatrice Gruendler Wael Hallaq Ahmad Khan

Jack Tannous Islamic History and Thought provides a platform for scholarly research Isabel Toral-Niehoff on any geographic area within the expansive Islamic world, stretching from the Mediterranean to China, and dated to any Manolis Ulbricht period from the eve of Islam until the early modern era. This series contains original monographs, translations (Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Jan Justand Witkam Greek, Latin) and edited volumes.

Fâṭima, Daughter of Muhammad

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