Aishah
613 – 678
Arab

Wife of Mohammed. By supporting her father Abu-Bakr's claim to be the first Caliph and opposing Ali, the prophet's son-in-law, she became identified with the Sunni rather than the Shia branch of Islam.

Contemporaries
fl. c. 625–c. 706Wu Zetian
600–664Xuanzang
?–656Uthman
574–622Shotoku Taishi
581–644Omar
570–632Mohammed
?–638Honorius I
605–633Fatima
fl. 650Bhartrihari
673–735St. Bede
fl. c. 550–c. 650Aneirin
573–664'Amr ibn al-'As
?–661Ali
?–651St. Aidan
573–634Abu-Bakr