Fatima

Fātima was originally an Arabic name, meaning "She who weans", being the name of the only proved surviving daughter of Prophet Muhammad; after the advent of Islam it became a common Muslim name for women. It is also used (as shortened to Ma (?)) as a common family name for Chinese Muslims. It is sometimes used by Catholics in connection with a significant twentieth-century apparition of the Virgin Mary in the town of Fátima in Portugal.

Related Topics:
Arab - Wean - Islam - Muslim - Chinese Muslims - Catholics - Twentieth-century - Apparition - Virgin Mary - Fátima - Portugal

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The name can variously refer to:

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• Fatima Zahra, daughter of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam;
• Fatemeh, the transliteration of the Persian pronunciation of the Arab name
• the town of Fátima in Portugal
• Our Lady of Fatima, a Catholic Church-approved apparition of the Virgin Mary at Fátima, Portugal in 1917
• Fatima Jinnah (1893 - 1967) was the sister of Pakistan's first governor-general, Muhammed Ali Jinnah.