Ruqayya ( ar, رقيّة) is an

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meaning "spell, enchantment, or incantation.” It is not to be confused with a separate Arabic term "Ruqia" from Arabic رقى (ruqia) meaning “to rise” or “ascend.”

Ruqayya bint Muhammad Ruqayya bint Muhammad ( ar, رقية بنت محمد, translit=Ruqayya bint Muḥammad; –March 624) was the second eldest daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Khadija. She married the third caliph Uthman and the couple had a son Abd Al ...

was the daughter of the Islamic prophet

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and wife of third Rashidun caliph

Uthman Uthman ibn Affan ( ar, عثمان بن عفان, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān; – 17 June 656), also spelled by Colloquial Arabic, Turkish and Persian rendering Osman, was a second cousin, son-in-law and notable companion of the Islamic proph ...

. Other notable people with the name include: *

Ruqayya bint Ali Ruqayya bint ʿAlī () was a daughter of the fourth caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib (). She is considered an Alid saint (a ), her mother is Al-Sahba bint Rabi'a. She is claimed to be a full-sister of Abbas ibn Ali on a name plate (shown in the image ...

, daughter of

Ali ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...

(cousin of

) *

Ruqayya bint Husayn Ruqayya bint al-Ḥusayn ( ar, رُقَيَّة بِنْت ٱلْحُسَيْن, born on the 20th of Rajab, 56 AH – 5 Rabi' al-Thani, 60 / 61 AH or 676 CE; died on the 10th of Safar, 60 / 61 AH or 680 / 681 CE), was the daughter of Husayn ib ...

, daughter of

Husayn Hussein, Hussain, Hossein, Hossain, Huseyn, Husayn, Husein or Husain (; ar, حُسَيْن ), coming from the triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-i-N ( ar, ح س ی ن, link=no), is an Arabic name which is the diminutive of Hassan, meaning "good", " ...

(grandson of

) * Empress

Ruqaiya Sultan Begum Ruqaiya Sultan Begum (alternative spelling: Ruqayya, Ruqayyah) ( – 1626) was the first and chief wife of the third Mughal emperor, Akbar. Ruqaiya was a first cousin of her husband and was a Mughal princess by birth. Her father, Hindal Mir ...

, first wife and chief consort of the Mughal Emperor

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* Ruqaya Al-Ghasra, a Bahraini athlete. She was one of the first women to represent Bahrain at the

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Ruqayyah Ahmed Rufa'i Ruqayyah Ahmed Rufa'i (born c. 1958) was appointed as Nigerian Minister of Education on 6 April 2010, when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan announced his new cabinet. Early life and education Rufa'i was born in Ringim in Jigawa State. She o ...

, Nigerian Minister of Education *

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood, (born Rosalyn Rushbrook in 1942, later Rosalyn Kendrick) is a British author of some forty books on Islam and other subjects. Biography Maqsood was born in London in 1942. She graduated from the University of Hull in 19 ...

, British Muslim author and winner of the

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Lifetime Achievement Award for literature *

Ruqayyah Boyer Ruqayyah Boyer (Arab رقية born April 28, 1991) is a Surinamese-Guyanese actress, singer/songwriter/rapper and former beauty pageant titleholder. She is also a graduate of the Institute of creative arts (Theatre arts, Drama and Music) Miss Gu ...

, a

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- Guyanese model and

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Ruqaiya Hasan Ruqaiya Hasan (3 July 1931After government birth records were lost in Pratapgarh, Hasan's mother re-registered Ruqaiya's birthdate as 3 July 1931, slightly earlier than her real birthdate, to enroll her in school earlier. – 24 June 2015) was a p ...

, a professor of linguistics

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