Fatima bint Mohammed ibn Ahmad Al Samarqandi

Fatima bint Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Samarqandi, known as Fatima al-Samarqani, was a twelfth-century female Sunni Muslim Hanafi–Scholar and Jurist. She is widely regarded to be known as one of the most influential female figures in Islamic jurisprudence history. She was also a personal advisor of Nur al-Din Zengi, ruler of the Seljuk Empire of Syria.