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Woman of the Qur'an |
17 June 2008 |
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The story of Hajar
Hajar began her adult life in bondage andÌýbecame the Prophet Abraham’s Egyptian concubine. Revered by contemporary Islamic feminists today as the symbolic mother of Islam, and the archetypal ‘single mother’, the writer and scholar Asra Nomani tells her story to reporterÌýAngela Robson. |
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