Fatimah in Nusantara
Fatimah, the daughter of the Prophet, wife of Ali and mother of Hasan and Husain presents the perfect traditional model of a Muslim woman. Politically, she continued the Prophet’s blood line and is the mother of the imams of Shi’ism. She is also held up as a spiritual example for her virtues of p...
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| Language: | English |
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2005
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1065/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1065/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1065/1/Fatimah_in_Nusantara.pdf |
| Summary: | Fatimah, the daughter of the Prophet, wife of Ali and mother of Hasan and
Husain presents the perfect traditional model of a Muslim woman. Politically,
she continued the Prophet’s blood line and is the mother of the imams of Shi’ism.
She is also held up as a spiritual example for her virtues of patience and
compassion to those around her. Most Islamic manuscript literatures of
Malaysia and Indonesia contain texts which tell of these virtues. The texts entered
the archipelago with Islam itself and were preserved up to the beginning of
print culture around 1920. This article describes the history of texts dealing
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