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Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah

Pakistani diplomat (–)

BegumShaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (22 July – 11 December ) was a Bengali Pakistanipolitician, diplomat and author.[1] She was the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London.[2] She was Pakistan's ambassador to Morocco from to , and a delegate to the United Nations,[1] calling for a more gender-inclusive language in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[3]

Family and education

Ikramullah was born as Shaista Akhtar Banu Suhrawardy into the Suhrawardy family to Hassan Suhrawardy and his wife Sahibzadi Shah Banu Begum.

Sahista's mother was Nawab Abdul Latif's granddaughter.[1]

She studied at Loreto College, Kolkata.[4] She was also the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London.[2] Her doctorate thesis, "Development of the Urdu Novel and Short Story", was a critical survey of Urdu literature.[5]

Marriage and children

She married Mohammed Ikramullah in [6] They had four children:[7]

Political career

After her marriage, she was one of the first Indian Muslim women in her generation to leave purdah.[1]Muhammad Ali Jinnah inspired her to be involved in politics.[1] She was a leader in the Muslim Women Student's Federation and the All-India Muslim League's Women's Sub-Committee.[1]

In , she was asked by the Government of India to attend the Pacific Relations Conference.

Jinnah convinced her not to accept the offer, as he wanted her to go as the representative of the Muslim League and to speak on its behalf.

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She was elected to the Constituent Assembly of India in , but never took the seat, as Muslim League politicians did not.[8][1]

She was one of two female representatives at the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in [5]

She was also a delegate to the United Nations, and worked on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights () and the Convention Against Genocide ().[1][8][4][9]

She was Pakistan's ambassador to Morocco from to [5]

Publications

She wrote for Tehzeeb-e-Niswan and Ismat, both Urdu women's magazines, and later wrote for English-language newspapers.[1] In her collection of short stories, called Koshish-e-Natamaam, was published.[10] In her book Letters to Neena was published; it is a collection of ten open letters supposedly written to Indians, who are personified as a woman called Neena.[11] The real Neena was one of her in-laws.[11] After the Partition of India, she wrote about Islam for the government, and those essays were eventually published as Beyond the Veil ().[1] Her autobiography, From Purdah to Parliament (), is her best-known writing; she translated it into Urdu to make it more accessible.[1][12] In her book Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy: A Biography, about her uncle, was published.[12] She also was one of the eight writers of the book Common Heritage (), about India and Pakistan.[13] In her last days, she completed an English translation of Mirat ul Uroos and an Urdu volume on Kahavat aur Mahavray.

In her collection of women's sayings and idioms in Urdu, called Dilli ki khavatin ki kahavatain aur muhavare, was posthumously published.[1] She also wrote Safarnama, in Urdu.[12]

Death

She died on 11 December , in Karachi, at age [4]

Awards and recognition

In , President of Pakistan posthumously gave her the highest civil award, Nishan-i-Imtiaz (Order of Excellence) award.[14][4]

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