Safiya
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Pronunciation | French: [sˤafija] |
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Gender | Female |
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Meaning | Pure, "Sincere Friend", "Wisdom" |
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Alternative spelling | Saffiyah, Safia, Safya , Safie |
Variant form(s) | Safiye |
Safiya (Arabic: صفية, romanized: Ṣafiyya) is a French and an Arabic, meaning "pure".[1][2] Alternative transliterations include Saffiyah, Safiyyah, Safie, Safia, Safija, Safya, Sophie 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
Modern[]
- Safiya Zaghloul (1876–1946), Egyptian political activist
- Safia Ahmed-jan (1941–2006), Afghan women's rights advocate and critic of the Taliban
- Safia El Emari (born 1949), Egyptian actress
- Sfia Bouarfa (born 1950), Moroccan-Belgian politician
- Safiya Henderson-Holmes (1950–2001), African-American poet
- Safia Farkash (born 1952), Libyan wife of Muammar Gaddafi
- Safia Abdi Haase (born 1959), Somali nurse and women's rights activist
- Safia Minney (born 1964), British social entrepreneur and author
- Safiya Nygaard (born 1992), American YouTuber
- Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail (born 1965) Iraqi politician
- Safia Shah (born 1966), British writer, editor and television news producer
- Safiya Hussaini (born 1967), Nigerian condemned to death for adultery, later acquitted
- Safia Abukar Hussein (born 1981), Somali sprinter
- Safiya Songhai (born 1984), American film director
- Safia Boukhima (born 1991) Algerian volleyball player
- Siti Safiyah, Malaysian ten-pin bowler
- Safiya Abdel Rahman, Egyptian active in girl guiding and scouting
Fictional characters[]
- Safiyah Sohail, a DC comics character
- Safie, a character Frankenstein
- Safiya fon Hasstrell, a character from Susan Dennard’s Witchlands series
See also[]
- Safiye, Turkish form
- Sophia (name) (unrelated Greek name)
References[]
Categories:
- Given names
- Arabic feminine given names