At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Overview
Fatima bint 'Abbas ibn Abi'l-Fath, the shaykha, muftiya, jurist, scholar, ascetic and worshipper Umm Zaynab al-Baghdadiyya al-Hanbaliyya the preacher; the women of Damascus were reformed through her, by her sincere admonition and contentment with little. She knew fiqh well and asked after it, and Shaykh Taqi al-Din marvelled at her knowledge and intelligence and praised her often. 1
Later years
She moved to Egypt after 700 AH, where the women of Cairo benefited from her; she had studied fiqh under the Maqadisa and Shaykh Shams al-Din among others. She died on the night of 'Arafa, 704 AH, aged over eighty. 1
Sources
- Siyar a'lam al-nubala' — al-Dhahabi (Ideas House International edition, 2004) , p.3015
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli
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islam.museum contributors. “Fatima bint Abbas al-Baghdadiyya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/fatima-bint-abbas-al-baghdadiyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.