Asma (given name)
Asma (Arabic: أسماء, romanized: ʾAsmāʾ) is a feminine given name in the Arab world and Muslim-majority countries. Notable people with the given name include:
People with the given name
Historical
- Asmā' bint Abu Bakr (c.595 – 692 CE), companion of the Islamic prophet Mohammed and elder sister of his wife Aisha
- Asma bint Marwan, 7th century Arabian Jewish female poet
- Asma bint Shihab (d. 1087), Yemeni Queen
20th–21st century
- Asma Afsaruddin, American academic
- Asma Ben Ahmed, Tunisian singer
- Asma al-Assad, First Lady of Syria
- Asma Barlas, (b.1950) American academic
- Asma Gull Hasan, Pakistani-American award-winning writer
- Asma Jahangir, Pakistani lawyer
- Asma Othmani, Tunisian singer
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