Sayyida Nafisa (d. 208 AH / 830 CE), the full name As-Sayyidah Nafīsah bint Amīr al-Muʾminīn Al-Ḥasan al-Anwar ibn Zayd al-Ablaj ibn Al-Hasan ibn ʿAlī...

The al-Sayyida Nafisa Mosque is a mosque in al-Sayyida Nafisa district (or Sebaa Valley), a section of the larger historic necropolis called al-Qarafa...

some of which, like those of Sayyida Ruqayya, Sayyida Nafisa and Sayyida Aisha, are still present today. Further south, Imam al-Shafi'i, a Sunni religious...

Muslim Sayyida Nafisa bint al-Hasan Sayyida Ruqayya bint al-Husayn Sayyida Zaynab bint Ali Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā, vol. 3 p. 14; Ibn al-Jawzī, al-Muntaẓam...

mausoleum is located along a street leading across the al-Khalifa area (also referred to as the Sayyida Nafisa Cemetery) which is part of the wider Qarafa Necropolis...

construction and design that belonged to the al-Sayyida Nafisa Mosque. It was most likely commissioned by Calip al-Hafiz during his renovations of that mosque...

The reappearance of Muhammad al-Mahdi is the Twelver eschatological belief in the return of their Hidden Imam in the end of time to establish peace and...

Al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd al-Thaqafi (Arabic: الْمُخْتَار ٱبْن أَبِي عُبَيْد الثَّقَفِيّ, romanized: al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī; c. 622 – 3 April...

Sayyida Ruqayya (commemorated by the nearby Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya) and Sayyida Nafisa (whose tomb is attached to the present Mosque of Sayyida Nafisa)...

Sometimes she is referred to as al-Sayyida (lit. 'the lady'), and in Egypt as al-Tahira (lit. 'the pure one') and Umm al-Yatama (lit. 'mother of the orphans')...