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As Abû ʿAbd Allâh al-Ḥusayn, son of ʿAlî and Fâṭima and grandson of Muḥammad, moved inexorably towards death on the field of Karbalâʾ, his sister Zaynab was drawn ever closer to...

The only child of Muhammad to survive him, Fatima was from early times taken up by Shi’a Islam, for whose adherents she is the virgin mother, the heavenly intercessor with...