Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Mother of Believers.

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Mother-wit.

Mother of Books.

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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.


Mother of Believers.

Ay-e’-shah, the second and favourite wife of Mahomet; so called because Mahomet being the “Father of Believers,” his wife of wives was Mother of Believers.	1

Mother-wit.

Mother of Books.

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