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This figure commands, “So weep now, you who of passion never / made a holocaust” in a modern reimagining of their most famous speech. As a child, this figure dreamed of clinging to a tree whose trunk, branches, and leaves were blown away by a black wind. In a sermon delivered on the first of Safar, Rasheed Turabi credited this person with “preserving the houses” of one sect. This teacher of Qur’anic exegesis’s knowledge of the hadīth earned them the title “Aqilatu Bani Hashim.” After watching the grandson of (*) Abū Sufyān strike a decapitated head’s teeth, this person cited a verse of Surah al-ʿImrān to warn of “humiliating torment” that would befall him. When Yazīd ordered this “arrogant woman” to identify (-5[1])herself, she responded that she was Muhammad’s granddaughter and Fātima’s daughter. For 10 points, name this daughter of ʿAlī (-5[1])who bore witness to her brother Husayn’s murder at Karbala. ■END■ (10[3]0[5])

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