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Aisha bint Abu Bakr (Arabic ???'isha, "she who lives", also transcribed as
A'ishah, Ayesha, A'isha, or Aisha, Turkish Ay?e, Ottoman Turkish Âi?e etc.)
was a wife of Muhammad. In Islamic writings, she is thus often referred to
by the title "Mother of the Believers" (Arabic: ??? ????????
umm-al-mu'min?n), per the description of Muhammad's wives as "Mothers of
Believers" in the Qur'an (33.6), and later, as the "Mother of the
Faithful", as in Qutb's Ma'alim fi al-Tariq (pps6). She is quoted as source
for many hadith (traditions about Muhammad's life), with Muhammad's
personal life being the topic of most narrations.
Aisha is a controversial figure because of differing portrayals of her in
Shia versions of Islamic history and her role in the First Fitna (first
Islamic civil war) at the head of an army against Ali ibn Abu Talib in the
Battle of
