Muslim Archives - Infinite Women

Kassi

As the principal wife and paternal cousin of Mansa Suleyman, Kassi co-ruled the Kingdom of Mali jointly with her husband in the mid-1300s.

Arabian heroine, who, in the famous battle of the Yermonks, between the Greeks and the Arabs, in the seventh century, rallied the Arabs, when they were driven back by the furious onset of their assailants, and, with several other of the chief women, took the command of the army.

Zeb-un-Nissa

Mughal princess and poet

Aisha

Spanish poet circa 1000 CE

Umm Zaynab Fatima

Egyptian social and religious leader

Hazrat Babajan

Pashtun Muslim saint, considered by her followers to be a Sadguru (”true guru”) or Qutub (in Sufism, the perfect human being, a spiritual leader who has a divine connection with God and passes knowledge on).