Asma bint Marwan

ʻAṣmāʼ bint Marwān (Arabic: عصماء بنت مروان "Ãsma, daughter of Marwan") was a female Arab poet said to have lived in Medina in 7th-century Arabia. Whether Muhammad ordered her assassinated for agitating against him is a subject of debate.

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