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== Overview of the portal ==


# Aisha
The wives of the prophet are described as "أمهات المؤمنين" or "mothers of the believers". As such the prophetic example is considered instructive for all Muslim households. How the prophet interacted with his wives, and how they obeyed him, is a framework for how Muslim husbands and wives ought to interact, as well as how men should interact with their own female slaves. [[Aisha]], the prophet's favorite wife, has an especially loft position in the sacred history of Islam. She was the last person the prophet interacted with before he died, and she also forms the starting point for many important [[sahih]] narrations about his life in the [[hadith]]. As such her life is considered especially instructive for Muslim women and believers in general.
# Muhammad's Other wives and consorts


==Aisha==


The wives of the prophet are described as "أمهات المؤمنين" or "mothers of the believers." As such the prophetic example is considered instructive for all Muslim households. How the prophet interacted with his wives, and how they obeyed him, is a framework for how Muslim husbands and wives ought to interact, as well as how men should interact with their own female slaves. [[Aisha]], the prophet's favorite wife, has an especially loft position in the sacred history of Islam. She was last person the prophet interacted with before he died, and she also form the starting point for many important [[sahih]] narrations about his life in the [[hadith]]. As such her life is considered especially instructive for Muslim women and believers in general.
Aisha was the youngest wife of the prophet, and also his favorite. The prophet, according to the tradition, passed away in her lap. After the expansion of Islam, she was a key figure in the criticism of the early [[Khilafah (Caliphate)|caliphate]] and also a key player in the first fitna, which saw her face off against Ali at the battle of the camel, where she was defeated and Ali took the throne of the caliphate for himself. As she was the prophet's favorite, the tradition goes to great lengths to emphasize her virginity, youth, and purity, even to the point of emphasizing that she was 6 years old when she was married to the prophet and 9 when the marriage was consummated.  
 
== Aisha ==
 
Aisha was the youngest wife of the prophet, and also his favorite. The prophet, according to the tradition, passed away in her lap. After the expansion of Islam, she was key figure in the criticism of the early [[caliphate]] and also a key player in the first fitna, which saw her face off against Ali at the battle of the camel, where she was defeated and Ali took the throne of the caliphate for himself. As she was the prophet's favorite, the tradition goes to great lengths to emphasize her virginity, youth, and purity, even to the point of emphasizing that she was 6 years old when she was married to the prophet and 9 when the marriage was consummated.  


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== Section two ==
==Muhammad's Other Wives and Consorts==


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Depending on the sources, Muhammad had around 19 wives and concubines, the concubines being slaves of his. Many of the marriages were conducted for political reasons, but the tradition is also quite frank that Muhammad was very fond of women and had a voracious sexual appetite; he is even imputed with the sexual powers of 30 men.


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{{PortalArticle|image=Geocentrism2.jpg|title=Geocentrism and the Quran|summary=The Qur'an mentions a few times that the sun and the moon travel in an orbit (falak - a rounded course), but does not mention once that the Earth does too|description=The Qur'an mentions a few times that the sun and the moon travel in an orbit (falak - a rounded course), but does not mention once that the Earth does too. This is consistent with an Earth-centered (geocentric) view of the cosmos that places a motionless Earth at the center of the universe and all "heavenly bodies" travel around the Earth. This was the prevailing understanding of the universe prior to the 16th century when Copernicus helped explain and popularize a sun-centered (heliocentric) view of the universe. Tellingly, the sun's orbit is almost always mentioned in the context of night and day (Quran 13:12 being the only exception) and is always mentioned with that of the moon (which does in fact orbit the Earth each month), and the sun's orbit likewise appears, to the unaided eye, to traverse the sky each night when it is visible. }}
{{PortalArticle|image=Safiyya_bint_Huyayy.png|title=Safiyah|summary=Safiyah was the beautiful wife of the Jewish leader Kinana, whom the prophet killed after conquering his people at Khaybar. Muhammad took her as a slave, but gave her freedom as her mahr for their marriage.|description=}}
 
{{PortalArticle|image=Khadijah.png|title=Khadijah bint Khuwaylid|summary=Khadijah was the prophet's first wife. She was considerably older than him and he benefited from her thriving trade business. She was one of the first converts to Islam.|description=}}
{{PortalArticle|image=Statue_of_Dyhia_in_Khenchela_(Algeria).jpg|title=Dihya|summary=Dihya or Al-Kahina (The Prophetess, Arabic: الكاهنة‎) was a Berber queen and a religious and military leader who led indigenous resistance to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, the region then known as Numidia. She was born in the early 7th century and died around the end of the 7th century in modern-day Algeria. |description=4Dihya or Al-Kahina (The Prophetess, Arabic: الكاهنة‎) was a Berber queen and a religious and military leader who led indigenous resistance to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, the region then known as Numidia. She was born in the early 7th century and died around the end of the 7th century in modern-day Algeria. }}
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{{PortalArticle|image=Statue_of_Dyhia_in_Khenchela_(Algeria).jpg|title=Dihya|summary=Dihya or Al-Kahina (The Prophetess, Arabic: الكاهنة‎) was a Berber queen and a religious and military leader who led indigenous resistance to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, the region then known as Numidia. She was born in the early 7th century and died around the end of the 7th century in modern-day Algeria. |description=4Dihya or Al-Kahina (The Prophetess, Arabic: الكاهنة‎) was a Berber queen and a religious and military leader who led indigenous resistance to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, the region then known as Numidia. She was born in the early 7th century and died around the end of the 7th century in modern-day Algeria. }}
 
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{{PortalArticle|image=Muhammad and Aisha.png|title=Ages of Muhammads Wives at Marriage|summary=Muhammad married different women at different stages of their lives.|description= }}
{{PortalArticle|image=Statue_of_Dyhia_in_Khenchela_(Algeria).jpg|title=Dihya|summary=Dihya or Al-Kahina (The Prophetess, Arabic: الكاهنة‎) was a Berber queen and a religious and military leader who led indigenous resistance to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, the region then known as Numidia. She was born in the early 7th century and died around the end of the 7th century in modern-day Algeria. |description=4Dihya or Al-Kahina (The Prophetess, Arabic: الكاهنة‎) was a Berber queen and a religious and military leader who led indigenous resistance to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, the region then known as Numidia. She was born in the early 7th century and died around the end of the 7th century in modern-day Algeria. }}
{{PortalArticle|image=Prophet-Muhammad-wives.jpg|title=Muhammads Marriages of Political Necessity|summary=Although the tradtion is quite explicit that Muhammad was fond of women, many of his marriages also had a political dimension to them, solidifying alliances within the early Islamic community.  |description=. }}
 
{{PortalArticle|image=Maria Al Qibtiyya.png|title=Mariyah Al-Qibtiyah (Mary the Copt)|summary=Mariyah was a beautiful girl sent to Muhammad as a sex slave by the Christian patriarch of Egypt. She bore Muhammad a son, who apparently would have been a prophet had he not died in infancy, but several anomalies in her biography lead modern scholars to question her historical existance. |description=. }}
{{PortalArticle|image=Geocentrism2.jpg|title=Geocentrism and the Quran|summary=The Qur'an mentions a few times that the sun and the moon travel in an orbit (falak - a rounded course), but does not mention once that the Earth does too|description=The Qur'an mentions a few times that the sun and the moon travel in an orbit (falak - a rounded course), but does not mention once that the Earth does too. This is consistent with an Earth-centered (geocentric) view of the cosmos that places a motionless Earth at the center of the universe and all "heavenly bodies" travel around the Earth. This was the prevailing understanding of the universe prior to the 16th century when Copernicus helped explain and popularize a sun-centered (heliocentric) view of the universe. Tellingly, the sun's orbit is almost always mentioned in the context of night and day (Quran 13:12 being the only exception) and is always mentioned with that of the moon (which does in fact orbit the Earth each month), and the sun's orbit likewise appears, to the unaided eye, to traverse the sky each night when it is visible. }}
 


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The wives of the prophet are described as "أمهات المؤمنين" or "mothers of the believers". As such the prophetic example is considered instructive for all Muslim households. How the prophet interacted with his wives, and how they obeyed him, is a framework for how Muslim husbands and wives ought to interact, as well as how men should interact with their own female slaves. Aisha, the prophet's favorite wife, has an especially loft position in the sacred history of Islam. She was the last person the prophet interacted with before he died, and she also forms the starting point for many important sahih narrations about his life in the hadith. As such her life is considered especially instructive for Muslim women and believers in general.

Aisha

Aisha was the youngest wife of the prophet, and also his favorite. The prophet, according to the tradition, passed away in her lap. After the expansion of Islam, she was a key figure in the criticism of the early caliphate and also a key player in the first fitna, which saw her face off against Ali at the battle of the camel, where she was defeated and Ali took the throne of the caliphate for himself. As she was the prophet's favorite, the tradition goes to great lengths to emphasize her virginity, youth, and purity, even to the point of emphasizing that she was 6 years old when she was married to the prophet and 9 when the marriage was consummated.

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Aisha bint Abi Bakr

Aisha was Muhammad's third and favorite wife, who was married to Muhammad at the age of six, and the daughter of Abu Bakr Abdullah b. Uthman, Muhammad's best friend. Aisha's status as the favorite wife of Muhammad gave her a preeminent position both in the early caliphate and in the Islamic tradition itself.


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Aisha's Age

Aisha was only 6 when the prophet married her and 9 when the marriage was consummated, according to the sources which the Islamic tradition itself deems most trustworthy. This is confirmed in multiple hadiths.


Muhammad's Other Wives and Consorts

Depending on the sources, Muhammad had around 19 wives and concubines, the concubines being slaves of his. Many of the marriages were conducted for political reasons, but the tradition is also quite frank that Muhammad was very fond of women and had a voracious sexual appetite; he is even imputed with the sexual powers of 30 men.

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Safiyah

Safiyah was the beautiful wife of the Jewish leader Kinana, whom the prophet killed after conquering his people at Khaybar. Muhammad took her as a slave, but gave her freedom as her mahr for their marriage.

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Khadijah bint Khuwaylid

Khadijah was the prophet's first wife. She was considerably older than him and he benefited from her thriving trade business. She was one of the first converts to Islam.

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Muhammad's Marriages

The prophet married many women, though some of them died while he was alive so he was not married to them all at the same time.

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Ages of Muhammads Wives at Marriage

Muhammad married different women at different stages of their lives.

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Muhammads Marriages of Political Necessity

Although the tradtion is quite explicit that Muhammad was fond of women, many of his marriages also had a political dimension to them, solidifying alliances within the early Islamic community.

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Mariyah Al-Qibtiyah (Mary the Copt)

Mariyah was a beautiful girl sent to Muhammad as a sex slave by the Christian patriarch of Egypt. She bore Muhammad a son, who apparently would have been a prophet had he not died in infancy, but several anomalies in her biography lead modern scholars to question her historical existance.

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