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Asma ( ar, أسماء, ʾAsmāʾ) is a feminine given name in the Arab world and Muslim-majority countries.
Notable people with the given name include:
Historical
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Asmā' bint Abu Bakr (c.595 – 692 CE), companion of the Islamic prophet Mohammed and elder sister of his wife Aisha
* ''Asma bint Atta'', was the wife of Abbasid caliph
al-Mahdi (
r. 775–785) until her divorce after a few months.
* Asma bint Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Harith, was the prominent member clan of
Banu Makhzum and mother-in-law of Umayyad prince
Abd al-Aziz
Abd al-Aziz ( ar, عبد العزيز, DMG: ''ʽAbd al-ʽAzīz''), frequently also transliterated Abdul-Aziz, is a male Arabic Muslim given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the words '' ʽAbd'', the Arabic definite article an ...
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* ''Asma bint Khumarawayh'', better known as
Qatr al-Nada was the wife of Abbasid caliph
al-Mu'tadid (r. 892–902).
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Asma bint Marwan, 7th century Arabian Jewish female poet
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Asma bint Shihab (d. 1087), Yemeni Queen
20th–21st century
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Asma Afsaruddin
Asma Afsaruddin (born 1958) is an American Islamic scholar and Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Biography
She was an associate professor in Arabic and Islamic studies at th ...
, American academic
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Asma Ben Ahmed, Tunisian singer
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Asma al-Assad
Asma Fawaz al-Assad (born 11 August 1975) is the First Lady of Syria. Born and raised in London to Syrian parents, she is married to the 19th and current President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad.
Assad graduated from King's College London in 1996 ...
, First Lady of Syria
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Asma Barlas, (b.1950) American academic
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Asma Gull Hasan
Asma Gull Hasan ( ur, ; born 1974) is an American writer. Her work includes the book ''Red, White, and Muslim'', a biographical view of growing up as an American Muslim. She is the daughter of Pakistani immigrants, born in Chicago, United Stat ...
, Pakistani-American award-winning writer
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Asma Jahangir, Pakistani lawyer
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Asma Othmani, Tunisian singer
See also
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Aasmah Mir
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Arabic feminine given names
Pakistani feminine given names