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Women of early Islam

Believers, martyrs, fighters and scholars

Islam's first believer was a woman. So was its first martyr.

  • Intro
  • 10 cards, about 4 min

Draft written with AI help: awaiting scholar review

The first person to accept Islam was a woman, and so was the first to die for it. Women of the first generations traded, fought, taught and narrated much of what Muslims know of the Prophet.

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