A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Fatimee

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FATIMEE,

The only daughter of Mahomet, and mother of all Mahommedan dynasties, was born at Mecca. In the year 623, she married her cousin All, who afterwards became Caliph. Turkish writers assert that the archangels Michael and Gabriel acted as guardians to the bride, and that seventy thousand angels joined the procession. One of her descendants founded the dynasty known by the name of the Fathemir Caliphs, who reigned in Africa and Syria. Fatimeh died a few months after her father.