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Samuel Fyzee-Rahamin

Born on 19th December 1880, in Poona, Samuel Rahamin's family were part of the Bene Israel, a cultivated Jewish community...

Atiya Fyzee-Rahamin

Author, social reformer, and patron of the arts, she was born in Constantinople on 1 August 1877 into the prominent...

Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley

Aisha Bewley has been – and continues to be – a world-renowned and accomplished translator of classical Islamic literature. After...

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Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Abdullah Yusuf Ali, born on April 14, 1872, in Bombay, British India (present-day Mumbai, India), was a renowned Islamic scholar,...

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Atiya Fyzee-Rahamin

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Author, social reformer, and patron of the arts, she was born in Constantinople on 1 August 1877 into the prominent Tyabji clan, which was at the forefront of Bombay's Sulaimani Bohra Muslim community. Atiya Fyzee-Rahamin is truly a remarkable figure in the poetic imprint of Europe and India/Pakistan. As an educated Indian woman, Atiya also attracted the attention of the British press, publishing in a local magazine and being interviewed and photographed by the journalist Mary Billington and the Lady's Pictorial.

 The wife of the artist Samuel Fayzee-Rahamin, she was the first South Asian woman to attend Cambridge University. Atiya and Samuel Fyzee-Rahamin had no children but formed a close partnership and acted as a creative team. Their first collaboration was a book on Indian music, variously entitled Indian Music (1914), The Music of India (1925), and Sangīt of India (1942), which combined her text with his illustrations.

 Her name is most notably associated with her 1947 biographical account of the iconoclastic poet of Pakistan, Muhammad Iqbal, one of the few primary reflections of Iqbal's time in Europe. While in London, Atiya also developed a close friendship with the poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal.

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