Safiya
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Look up صفية, Safiya in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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| Gender | Female |
| LanguageTemplate:Pluralize from text | Arabic |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | Pure; Sincere Friend |
| Region of origin | Arab world |
| Other names | |
| Alternative spelling | Saffiyah, Safia, Safya, Safie, Safeia, Safieh |
| Variant formTemplate:Pluralize from text | Safiye |
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Safiya (Template:Langx) is an Arab name, meaning "pure."[1][2] Alternative transliterations include Saffiyah, Safiyyah, Safie, Safia, Safija, Safya, Safiyah, Safeia, etc.
Notable bearers of the name include:
Medieval
- Safiyyah bint Abd al-Muttalib (late 560s–c. 640), Sahaba and a prominent person in Islamic history
- Safiyya bint Huyayy (c. 610–c. 670), one of the wives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Safiyyah bint Abi al-As, daughter of Abu al-As ibn Umayyah
- Safiye Sultan (wife of Murad III), Ottoman Valide sultan
- Safiye Sultan (daughter of Mustafa II) (1696–1778), the daughter of Ottoman sultan Mustafa II
Modern
- Safia Abdi Haase (born 1959), Somali nurse and women's rights activist
- Safia Abukar Hussein (born 1981), Somali sprinter
- Safia Ahmed-jan (1941–2006), Afghan women's rights advocate and critic of the Taliban
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- Safia Boukhima (born 1991) Algerian volleyball player
- Safia El Emari (born 1949), Egyptian actress
- Safia Farkash (born 1952), Libyan wife of Muammar Gaddafi
- Safia Middleton-Patel (born 2004), Welsh footballer
- Safia Minney (born 1964), British social entrepreneur and author
- Safia Shah (born 1966), British writer, editor and television news producer
- Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail (born 1965) Iraqi politician
- Safia Tarzi, Afghan fashion designer.
- Safiya Abdel Rahman, Egyptian active in girl guiding and scouting
- Safiya George, U.S. Virgin Islands nurse practitioner and academic administrator
- Safiya Henderson-Holmes (1950–2001), African-American poet
- Safiya Hussaini (born 1967), Nigerian condemned to death for adultery, later acquitted
- Safiya Nygaard (born 1992), American YouTuber
- Safiya Songhai (born 1984), American film director
- Safiya Zaghloul (1876–1946), Egyptian political activist
- Sfia Bouarfa (born 1950), Moroccan-Belgian politician
- Siti Safiyah, Malaysian ten-pin bowler
Fictional characters
- Safie, a character in Frankenstein
- Safiya fon Hasstrell, a character from Susan Dennard’s Witchlands series
- Safiya Llewellyn-Fayyad, a character from Life is Strange: Double Exposure
- Safiyah Sohail, a DC comics character
See also
- Safiye, Turkish form
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Salahuddin Ahmed (1999). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. London: Hurst & Company.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.S. A. Rahman (2001). A Dictionary of Muslim Names. New Delhi: Goodword Books.
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