Muslim women have played a crucial role in the medieval and early modern Islamic world as leaders (and in pre-modern history in general) which is rarely discussed, hence:

𝗔 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗦𝗟𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗖 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗦𝗔𝗬𝗬𝗜𝗗𝗔 𝗔𝗟 𝗛𝗨𝗥𝗥𝗔.🧵 (1/13) Real name: Lalla Aicha bint Ali ibn Rashid al-Alami.

Born: Granada, Andalusia (Present day Spain) in 1485.

Descendant of: Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish al-Alami, a Sufi saint & a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Educated in: Spanish, Portuguese & Islamic theology.

Muhammad Asad was officially the first citizen of 🇵🇰 & the first person to be awarded a passport in 1947. He was an Austro-Hungarian-born Jewish convert to Islam and the author of one of the most influential Quranic translations of the modern age "The Message of Quran". 🧵 Born: July 1900 (Austria-Hungary)
Died: February 1992 (Andalucia, Spain)

Asad was an Islamic interpreter, journalist, traveller, writer, political theorist, diplomat and a linguist fluent in Hebrew, Aramaic, English, French, Persian and Arabic who served 🇵🇰 a great deal. /1