Maria al-Qibtiyya (Arabic: مارية القبطية‎) (alternatively, "Maria Qupthiya"), or Maria the Copt, (died 637) was an Egyptian Coptic Christian (who turned into a Muslim wife of the prophet according to Sunni Islam) slave who was sent as a gift from Muqawqis, a Byzantine official, to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 628.[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouqkh6k29To

Maria al-Qibtiyya (Arabic: مارية القبطية‎) (alternatively, "Maria Qupthiya"), or Maria the Copt, (died 637) was an Egyptian Coptic Christian (who turned into a Muslim wife of the prophet according to Sunni Islam) slave who was sent as a gift from Muqawqis, a Byzantine official, to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 628.[1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouqkh6k29To