Hind bt. ʿUtba

by Spellberg, Denise A.

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Hind bt. ʿUtba b. Rabīʿa (d. 13–5/634–6) of the tribe of ʿAbd Shams, mother of the Umayyad caliph Muʿāwiya (r. 41–60/661–80), enters the historical record as an enemy of Islam. With her third husband, Abū Sufyān b. Ḥarb (d. 32–4/653–5), she sought vengeance at the battle of Uḥud (3/625) for the deaths of her father ʿUtba b. Rabīʿa, her uncle Shayba b. Rabīʿa, her brother al-Walīd b. ʿUtba, and her son Ḥanẓala b. Abī Sufyān, who were killed by

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Hind bt. ʿUtba b. Rabīʿa (d. 13–5/634–6) of the tribe of ʿAbd Shams, mother of the Umayyad caliph Muʿāwiya (r. 41–60/661–80), enters the historical record as an enemy of Islam. With her third husband, Abū Sufyān b. Ḥarb (d. 32–4/653–5), she sought vengeance at the battle of Uḥud (3/625) for the deaths of her father ʿUtba b. Rabīʿa, her uncle Shayba b. Rabīʿa, her brother al-Walīd b. ʿUtba, and her son Ḥanẓala b. Abī Sufyān, who were killed by

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei2301

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eng Islam

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Spellberg, Denise A.

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