Hind al-Hunnud
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Hind al-Hunnud (also known as Hind al-Hunud) was a member of the Quraish tribe of the kingdom of Kindah. She led a battle against Muhammad in 624, and both her father and brother were killed. However, she eventually submitted to him and converted to Islam.
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Known as peerless, the "Hind of Hinds", she led the opposition of her tribe, the wealthy and powerful Quriaish, to the forced imposition of Islam. The climax of her campaign came at the terrible battle of Badr in A.D.624 where she engaged directly with Muhammad himself, but her father, brother and uncle were killed. For a time she directed a guerilla war of vengeance against the enemy, but eventually, outnumbered and surrounded, she was compelled to submit and convert to Islam. In her military heyday Hind had beed not only a war-leader but a priestess of the "Lady of Victory" inspiring the women to sacred chants for valor and victory. After the she bowed to the will of Allah, then nothing more was heard of this brilliant, brave and unusual woman.
