Ruqayya

Ruqayya (Arabic: رقيّة‎) (also spelled Ruqaiya, Ruqayyah, Ruqaiyyah, Ruqaya etc.) is an Arabic female given name meaning "rise, ascent, ascending", "chant or recite Divine Words".^[1] It is derived either from Arabic رقى (ruqia) meaning "rise, ascent" or from رقية (ruqyah) meaning "spell, charm, incantation". It also means "enchanting, bewitching or of being armed against sorcery".^[2] Ruqayyah is the name a daughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammad.

Famous people called Ruqayya include:

• Ruqayyah bint Husayn, daughter of Husayn - grandson of Muhammad.
• Ruqayyah bint Muhammad, daughter of Muhammad.
• Empress Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, first wife and chief consort of the Mughal Emperor Akbar.
• Ruqaya Al-Ghasra, a Bahraini athlete. She was one of the first women to represent Bahrain at the Olympic Games.
• Ruqayyah Ahmed Rufa'i, Nigerian minister of Education.
• Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood, British Muslim author and winner of the Global Peace and Unity Lifetime Achievement Award for literature.
• Ruqayyah Boyer, a Dutch-Guyanese model and the current title holder of Miss Guyana Universe.
• Ruqaiya Hasan, a professor of linguistics, she has researched and published widely in the areas of verbal art, culture, context, text, lexicogrammar and semantic variation.

See also

• Islam
• Arabic name
• List of peoples
• List of adjectival forms of place names
• Most popular given names
• Al Roqya

References

1. Grant, Russell (2009). Zodiac Baby Names the Complete Book of Baby Names Defined by Star Sign (1st ed.). Hay House, Inc. p. 323. ISBN 9781401926830.
2. Steingass, Francis Joseph; enl.,, ; Steingass, entirely reconstructed F. (2003). A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary: Including the Arabic Words and Phrases to be Met with in Persian Literature, Being, Johnson and Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English Dictionary, Revised, Enlarged, and Entirely Reconstructed (Repr. ed.). Asian Educational Services. p. 584. ISBN 9788120606708. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)