Umm Kulthum was born in a small rural village to a poor family. Her backgro… Read Full Bio ↴Umm Kulthum was born in a small rural village to a poor family. Her background typified that of the mashayikh and did not differ substantially from that of many of her contemporaries. Her father, al-Shaykh Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Baltaji (d. 1932), was the imam of the local mosque, and her mother, Fatmah al-Maliji (d. 1947), was a housewife. Her date of birth is not known for certain, but the most reliable suggestion is May 4, 1904, given on a page from the Daqahliyah provincial birth records for Tammay al-Zahayrah.

See http://almashriq.hiof.no/egypt/700/780/umKoulthoum/biography.html .

(See also Oum Kalthoum.)