Batul __socratesPageHistoryEdit Visual Text BATUL بتول. Lit. "A shoot or offest" of a palm-tree cut off from its mother tree "a virign" (as cut off or withheld from men). The term al-Batul is applied to Fatimah, the daughter of Muhammad, because she was separated from the other women of her age by her excellences, Heb. Bethulah. Based on <a href="https://www.juancole.com/library/dictionary-of-islam-hughes">Hughes, Dictionary of Islam</a> CancelTweetShareRedditEmail