page_title: Fatima bint al-Ahmar
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Fatima bint al-Ahmar / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Ecusson portant la devise des rois nasrides Wa lā gāliba illā-llāh (ولا غالب إلا الله), Et il n'y a pas de vainqueur, sinon Dieu, stuc sur les murs de l'Alhambra, XIIIème siècle, Grenade, Espagne.English: Escutcheon with the nasrid kings motto, Wa lā gāliba illā-llāh (ولا غالب إلا الله),And nobody is victorious, but God, stucco on the walls of the Alhambra, 13th-century, Granada, Spain.
context_page_description: Fatima bint Muhammad "bint al-Ahmar" was a Nasrid princess of the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state on the Iberian Peninsula. A daughter of Sultan Muhammad II and an expert in the study of barnamaj, she married her father's cousin and trusted ally, Abu Said Faraj. Their son Ismail I became sultan after deposing her half-brother, Nasr. She was involved in the government of her son but was especially politically active during the rule of her grandsons, Muhammad IV and Yusuf I, both of whom ascended the throne at a young age and were placed under her tutelage. Later Granadan historian Ibn al-Khatib wrote an elegy for her death stating that "She was alone, surpassing the women of her time / like the Night of Power surpasses all the other nights". Modern historian María Jesús Rubiera Mata compared her role to that of María de Molina, her contemporary who became regent to Castilian kings. Professor Brian A. Catlos attributed the survival of the dynasty, and eventual success, as being partly due to her "vision and constancy."
caption: Detail of the coat of arms of the Emirate of Granada carved into the walls of the Alhambra palace, where Fatima was likely educated.
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