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| Source: [[Heath, Jennifer]], //The Scimitar and the Veil// | Source: [[Heath, Jennifer]], //The Scimitar and the Veil// | ||
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| During a battle, she is led by Hind (above) and charges into battle to pull fallen soldiers off the battlefield and treat their wounds. At one point Muhammad is near her and she sees he is being attacked. She takes a sword blow for him and helps him fight off the men until help arrives. She is mortally wounded and carried off the battlefield where she lays next to her wounded sons. | During a battle, she is led by Hind (above) and charges into battle to pull fallen soldiers off the battlefield and treat their wounds. At one point Muhammad is near her and she sees he is being attacked. She takes a sword blow for him and helps him fight off the men until help arrives. She is mortally wounded and carried off the battlefield where she lays next to her wounded sons. | ||
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| Source: [[Heath, Jennifer]], //The Scimitar and the Veil// | Source: [[Heath, Jennifer]], //The Scimitar and the Veil// | ||
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| During the battle against Heraclius the Byzantine and his 200,000 soldiers, Khawla and her 3 captains, Alfra, Oserrah, and Wafeira, charge into battle and kick ass. Khawla is portrayed as “the black knight.” WHen it is asked how women came to be trained as great warriors, Oserrah exclaims, “The pegs” (217). This is a reference to the above and the women training to fight with tent pegs. Khawla was a Bedouin, so it is likely she was trained as a warrior since childhood. | During the battle against Heraclius the Byzantine and his 200,000 soldiers, Khawla and her 3 captains, Alfra, Oserrah, and Wafeira, charge into battle and kick ass. Khawla is portrayed as “the black knight.” WHen it is asked how women came to be trained as great warriors, Oserrah exclaims, “The pegs” (217). This is a reference to the above and the women training to fight with tent pegs. Khawla was a Bedouin, so it is likely she was trained as a warrior since childhood. | ||
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| Source: [[Heath, Jennifer]], //The Scimitar and the Veil// | Source: [[Heath, Jennifer]], //The Scimitar and the Veil// | ||
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| + | Khawla Bint Al Azwar was the sister of Zaraar bin Malik, both from a tribe of Adnite Arabs that are said to be descendants of the Prophet Ishmael. Her brother was captured in a battle with the Roman Christians, at which point Khawla just goes into battle solo and starts killing Christian soldiers left and right. SHe is a fierce warrior, like her brother. This inspires the Muslims to attack the Romans and rout the enemy. | ||
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| + | After the battle, Khawla refuses to remove her facial covering. Eventually, it is revealed that she is a woman. Everybody celebrates this. When they find out her brother is being taken to a prisoner camp, they plan a daring rescue, Khawla frees him and they escape. | ||
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| + | At the battle of Shakura, the women were captured by Peter and the Romans. The stage they own revolt using tent pegs. Peter' | ||
| + | Source: [[Akbar, Shaik]] | ||
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| ====== Aisha bint Abu Bakr ====== | ====== Aisha bint Abu Bakr ====== | ||
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| //From Neglected Genealogy of the Martyred Heroin//by [[Previato, Tommaso]] | //From Neglected Genealogy of the Martyred Heroin//by [[Previato, Tommaso]] | ||
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| + | ====== ‘Afirah bint ‘Affar al-Himyariyah ====== | ||
| + | (dates unknown) who also fought in the Battle of Ajnadayn, was not less pugnacious. An account of her warlike temperament is offered by the great early Muslim historian and muhaddith al-Waqidi (747– 823) in his controversial Futu¯ h. al-Sha¯m (The Islamic Conquest of Syria). [Referring to Khalid ibn Sa’id]: Oh commander, by Allah! We will be more pleased if you put us in front to fight the Romans and break their faces [instead of encouraging our men to do so]. We will kill them until we are all martyred and none of us remain.29 Waqidi’s account does not fail to reveal also invaluable details about the close friendship between the two women and the extraordinary endurance displayed when they threw themselves valiantly into the Battle of Yarmouk (636) across the disputed territories of the then Christian Levant.” (306) | ||
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| + | //From Neglected Genealogy of the Martyred Heroin//by [[Previato, Tommaso]] | ||
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| + | ====== Umm Salamah Asma bint Yazid ====== | ||
| + | “Nearly contemporary with Khawlah and ‘Afirah was Umm Salamah Asma bint Yazid (dates unknown)—not to be confused with Muhammad’s sixth wife Umm Salamah bint Abi Umayya (ca. 580–680). She was reported to have joined the Muslim army in the Battle of Khaybar (628), and to have killed nine Byzantine soldiers with just the pole of her tent not long afterwards at Yarmouk.31 On another occasion, serving as a sort of attorney before the Prophet, she delivered a colorful speech which brings out sahabiyyat’s concern over the issue of whether women should be allowed to become more actively involved in jihad operations.” (306) | ||
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| + | //From Neglected Genealogy of the Martyred Heroin//by [[Previato, Tommaso]] | ||
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