Notes on Aisha Bint Abu-Bakr

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Aisha Bint Abu-Bakr has played a valuable and significant contribution in the early years of Islam and through time until the present. Her contributions have not only helped establish the role of women in Islam but have had a lasting effect upon the Islamic religion. Throughout her life she played the role of a leader, teacher, translator becoming a role model for modern women of Islam. It is through the impact of her contributions that the Islamic religion has come to accept women as equal members of society.

The Prophet Muhammad was known as the “messenger of God”, receiving revelations which became the foundation for the newly found religion; Islam.  Due to the political and social circumstances of that time, the prophet married many times, condoning polygamy. Aisha’s was the third wife of the Prophet Muhammad. The age of Aisha’s marriage is debateable however; she only came to live with the prophet after the age of 14 to consummate their marriage. Aisha was well known for her beauty and intellect, mainly focusing on her good memory, becoming known as the “mother of believers” due to her contributions to Islam.