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Aishah (ī`shə, ä`ĭshä'), c.614–678, third and favorite of the nine wives of Muhammad Muhammad (məhăm`əd) [Arab.,=praised], 570?–632, the name of the Prophet of Islam , one of the great figures of history, b. ..... Click the link for more information. the Prophet. Her father was Abu Bakr, who became first caliph after the Prophet's death. She was married to the Prophet soon after the Hegira, his only wife that was neither a widow nor a divorcee. A brilliant, astute woman, she was devoted to her husband and his teachings, and after his death she exerted considerable influence, especially against Ali, Muhammad's son-in-law. She took part in an unsuccessful armed revolt during Ali's tenure as caliph (656) and was exiled to Medina. Her name also appears as Ayesha or Aisha. BibliographySee N. Abbott, Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed (1942, repr. 1973). |
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Last month, Aishah Azmi, a 24-year-old teaching assistant at a
school in northern England, was suspended from work for refusing to
remove the full-face veil that she wears. By focusing on Black families confronting the
lynching of a family member and deploying music to express what her
stage dialogue could not, Johnson helped to pioneer a tradition that, as
Wilkerson notes, continues in the more recent work of playwrights such
as Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, and Aishah Rahman. Aishah Rahman's play Unfinished Women Cry in No Man Land While
a Bird Dies in a Gilded Cage (1977), which Margaret Wilkerson calls an
"underground classic" (197), similarly portrays the
difficulties of motherhood in a racist (and classist) society. |
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