Maria al-Qibtiyya

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Māriyya bint Shamʿūn al-Qibtiyya, better known as Māriyya al-Qibṭiyya or al-Qubṭiyya (Arabic: مارية القبطية), or Maria the Copt, died 637, was a Coptic Egyptian woman who along with her sister Sirin bint Shamun, was given as a slave to the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a gift in 628 by Al-Muqawqis, a Christian governor of Alexandria, during the territory's Sasanian occupation.

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