Pirani Ameena Begum
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Inayat Khan
Inayat Khan was an exemplar of Universal Sufism and founder of the "Sufi Order in the West" in 1914 . Later, in 1923, the Sufi Order of the London period was dissolved into a new organization formed under Swiss law and called the "International Sufi Movement"...
and the mother of their four children Noor-un-Nisa
Noor Inayat Khan
Assistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan / Nora Baker, GC, MBE , usually known as Noor Inayat Khan was of Indian Muslim origin...
(1914), Vilayat
Vilayat Inayat Khan
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, was the eldest son of Sufi Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, head of the Sufi Order International. Pir Zia Inayat Khan is Pir Vilayat's son and successor as Pir of the Sufi Order International...
(1916), Hidayat
Hidayat Inayat Khan
Hidayat Inayat Khan a classical composer, conductor and Representative-General of the International Sufi Movement...
(1917) and Khair-un-Nisa (1919). The family settled in Suresnes, near Paris. She left a collection of 101 poems called "A Rosary of one hundred and one beads". Some poems were lost in the war of 1940 but 54 have been preserved and were published in 1998.
One of her uncles on her father's side was a politician and judge whose statue is placed in a main center in Albuquerque. Her aunt on her father's side was Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy was the founder of Christian Science , a Protestant American system of religious thought and practice religion adopted by the Church of Christ, Scientist, and others...
, founder of the Christian Science Church in the USA.
Hidayat Inayat Khan
Hidayat Inayat Khan
Hidayat Inayat Khan a classical composer, conductor and Representative-General of the International Sufi Movement...
wrote: "In 1926, Hazrat Inayat Khan gave my Mother an exceptional initiation as "Pirani", which was only to be given to her. That special initiation was not to be given to any one else in the Sufi Movement, either in the present or in the future". Hazrat Inayat Khan said in his Autobiography that without Ameena Begum's help he would never have been able to bring his Sufi Message to the Western world.http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_16.htm.
Articles and poetry
- Women's Seclusion in the East, by Amina Begum Inayat Khan. "The Sufi" magazine No. 3 Vol. I, Sept. 1915
- Poems from Thy Rosary of a Hundred Beads, a collection of poems written by 'Sharda, Pirani Ameena Begum Ora-Ray Inayat Khan'. "Caravanseari" magazine (Canada) November 1988 pp. 31–34 http://caravanserai-magazine.blogspot.com/1988/01/1988-volume-1-sharda-pirani-ameena.html
- Poems from Thy Rosary of a Hundred Beads by 'Sharda, Pirani Ameena Begum Ora-Ray Inayat Khan'. Published in book of Hidayat Inayat Khan "Once upon a time..." Groningen (Netherlands) 1998 pp. 53–87
- Rosary of a Hundred Beads 'Sharda' to 'Daya by Pirani Ameena Begum Ora Ray Baker. Published by Petama books (Zurich) ISBN 978-3-907643-03-7, paperback, 64 p.
Sources and notes
- HJ Witteveen. Universal Sufism. Publisher: Element Books Ltd (September 1997) 178 pages; ISBN 1862040931 - pp.. 36-37
- Russo-Indian Relations in 1900-1917. A Selection of Documents. (in Russian). Moscow: The Oriental Literature (Russian Academy of Science). 1999. 527 pp.. ISBN 5020181552 - about Begum, documents numbers №302-304, 423-430 pp..
- Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan. Shrabani Basu. Publisher: Omega Publications, Inc.; 1st edition (August 1, 2007) ISBN 0930872789 - about Begum pp. 4–10 passim, 19–27 passim, 31, 39–47 passim, 119, 189–103 passim, and 205
External links
- bbc.co.uk/timewatch article by Sarah Jobling "Noor Inayat Khan: Life of a Spy Princess"