Fatima

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Fatima, or, in a more exact transliteration, Fāṭimah (Arabic: فاطمة ), is originally an Arabic name, meaning "Flower of Dawn". It is commonly given as a female personal name among Muslims, after Fatima Zahra ("Fatima the gracious"), the daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Fatima was the name of the favorite daughter of the prophet Muhammad who was his only child to bear children. The Turkish and Azeri version of the name is either Fatma or Fadime. North African transliterations of the name also often omit the unstressed second syllable and render it as Fatma when romanized. The Persian transliteration is Fatemeh and it is Faḍma in Kabyle Berber. Due to Arabic and Islamic historical and cultural influence, the name is common amongst Spaniards and Portuguese, as well as their cultural descendants in the Americas, and is spelt Fátima. The surname Mǎ (馬), a common family name for Chinese Muslims, is sometimes said to derive from the name Fatima.

The town of Fátima in Portugal was named after a Moorish princess. It was the site of a famous Marian apparition in 1917, after which it achieved some popularity as a female personal name among Roman Catholics.

Other people named Fatima or Fatimah include:

• Fatimah bint Amr grandmother of Muhammad
• Fatima bint Asad was Muhammad's aunt, the mother of first Shi’a Imam Ali bin Abu Talib, and the mother-in-law of Muhammad's daughter, Fatima Zahra bint Muhammad.
• Fatima Jinnah sister of Pakistan's first governor-general, Muhammed Ali Jinnah
• Fatima bint Hizam, mother of Abbas ibn Ali and a wife of the first Shia Imam.
• Fatimah bint Husayn, daughter of Husayn bin Ali
• Fatimah bint al-Khattab
• Fatimah bint Musa al-Kazim
• Fatima Bhutto, niece of the late, Benazir Bhutto
• Fatima Kuinova, Soviet-Bukharan Jewish singer and "Honored Artist of the USSR"
• Fatima Siad, model
• Miss Fatima, former British Women's Chess Champion.
• Bluebeard's last wife, by legend, is known as Fatima.

People named Fátima include:

• Fátima Aburto Baselga, a Spanish physician and politician
• Fátima Choi, a politician in Macau
• Fátima Felgueiras, a Portuguese politician
• Fátima Guedes, a Brazilian singer and composer.
• Fátima Leyva, a Mexican footballer
• Fátima Lopes, a Portuguese fashion designer
• Fátima Madrid, a Spanish swimmer
• Fátima Miranda, a Spanish singer and researcher
• Fátima Veiga, a Cape Verdean politician and diplomat

People named Fatma include:

• Fatma Abdulhabib Fereji, a Tanzanian politician
• Fatma Ali, a Tanzanian politician
• Fatma Ekenoğlu, a Turkish Cypriot politician
• Fatma Gadri, an Azerbaijani theatre actress
• Fatma Girik, a Turkish actress politician
• Fatma Lanouar, a Tunisian runner
• Fatma Neslişah a paternal granddaughter of the last Ottoman Caliph Abdülmecid II
• Fatma Salman Kotan, a Turkish politician
• Fatma Samoura, a United Nations official from Senegal
• Fatma-Zohra Oukazi, an Algerian volleyball player

People named Fatemeh:

• Fatemeh Javadi, conservative politician and one of the current Vice Presidents of Iran

See also

• Wikipedia pages beginning with "Fatima"
• Our Lady of Fatima
• Fatima The Gracious (book), a biography of Fatima Zahra
• Glossary of Islamic terms in Arabic