Spellberg's Aisha And The Prophet Muhammad

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Aisha is the protagonist character among the Prophet’s thirteen wives who had displayed a female religious, historical figure along by documenting and narrating Muhammad’s life. Aisha married the prophet at the age of six or seven and consummated her marriage, later, when she reached her adolescence-the age of nine. Spellberg had schemed Aisha’s nineteen features and key attributes through which had not coincided within any of her co-wives in mentioning them in four themes. 1. Genealogy, the father-daughter linkage, both Aisha’s parents (Abu Bakr and Umm-Ruman) were one of the first Muslim emigrants, Muhajireen, whom they had embodied loyalty and preeminence to the Prophet through leaving their hometown Mecca and dwelling in Medina ( the new

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