has survived to this date. Her name and her epithets remain popular choices for Muslim girls.

Name and titles

Her most common epithet is al-Zahra , which encodes her piety and regularity in prayer. This epithet is believed by the Shia to be a reference to her primordial creation from light that continues to radiate throughout the creation. The Shia Ibn Babawayh writes that, whenever Fatima prayed, her light shone for the inhabitants of the heavens as starlight shines for the inhabitants

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