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Ayesha (611–678)Third and favourite wife of the prophet Muhammad, who married her when she was nine. Her father, Abu Bakr, became caliph on Muhammad's death in 632. She bitterly opposed the later succession to the caliphate of Ali, who had once accused her of infidelity. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Last month, Aishah Azmi, a 24-year-old teaching assistant at a
school in northern England, was suspended from work for refusing to
remove the full-face veil that she wears. By focusing on Black families confronting the
lynching of a family member and deploying music to express what her
stage dialogue could not, Johnson helped to pioneer a tradition that, as
Wilkerson notes, continues in the more recent work of playwrights such
as Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, and Aishah Rahman. Aishah Rahman's play Unfinished Women Cry in No Man Land While
a Bird Dies in a Gilded Cage (1977), which Margaret Wilkerson calls an
"underground classic" (197), similarly portrays the
difficulties of motherhood in a racist (and classist) society. |
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