Outshine the Sun – 40 Muslim Women in History
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From the back cover:
Discover the inspiring lives of Muslim women living in every century, beginning with blessed Khadijah in 6th century Mecca right up to a present-day Turkish astrophysicist who discovered a double-ringed galaxy, Persian mountaineers who scaled Mount Everest and a Pakistani humanitarian who saves orphans and transformed the health care system.
Each life is presented first through a poetic stanza which is fun to recite and easy to learn. Then some actual words of the woman, or a relevant hadith, is provided. The significance of each illustration is explained. And this is followed by lessons one might learn from the particular life-story presented with the key points highlighted in bold.
Besides learning astounding biographic details of these exemplary women, sections of activities are offered which enable the reader-child or adult!-to practice character building qualities such as mercy, patience, generosity and courage and much more.
To bring the reader closer, for example, to the Prophet’s wife, one is asked, “What are some ways you, too, could comfort someone going through a difficult time-the way Sayeda Khadijah comforted the Prophet?” Or, “Make your own plan for practicing the generosity exhibited by Fatma Zahra’s feeding of the poor.” Or “Give an example of what you could do, like Sumaya, to hold firm to your faith when it’s difficult?” In order to better understand the work of hadith transmission by Karima al-Marwaziyya (d.1070) of Merv, an isnad game can be created. Put on a play whose heroine Fatima was a young Libyan girl who delivered water to soldiers fighting invaders-and even got shot while serving her people.
The scope of women covered in both time -14 centuries! – and space – 33 nations! – is, in itself, a testimony to the universality of selfless service. One might recognize many names but never have known the stories behind them or about the virtues they exemplified. And then, in this book we meet many women for the very first time. There have always been powerful writers from such countries as from Egypt and Syria! Meet a Lebanese playwright, an Afghani poet and even a visionary sci-fi writer in Kolkata. The first female judge in our era was martyred in Russia. We are taken to the Uyghur people-who today are severely persecuted by China. From Turkmenistan to India, you will be introduced to artists and composers, founders of universities, mosques and libraries, warriors and freedom fighters, Nigerian educators and even an Indonesian sea captain who became blind as she fought off invaders!
Please see the Product Description below for much more information about this book and its authors. In addition, please explore the sample pages to the left, just beneath the picture of the book cover, to see more example pages.
- Paperback
- 9781941610947
- 112