biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (c.605–33)
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| biography:
| The youngest daughter of the Prophet Mohammed, and wife of the fourth Muslim caliph, Ali; from them the Fatimids, the dynasty of Shiite caliphs, who ruled over Egypt and N Africa (909–1171), and later over Syria and Palestine, traced their descent. |
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