Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah

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Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, statesman of British Bengal and later Pakistan

Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (born July 22, 1915 in Calcutta , British India ; died December 11, 2000 in Karachi , Pakistan ), also Shaista Akhtar Banu Suhrawardy or Begum Ikramullah , was a Pakistani politician , diplomat and author . She was an active member of the religious-political Pakistan movement ( Tehrik-i Pakistan ) and worked under Jinnah . She is the niece of the prominent politician Huseyn Suhrawardy (1892–1963).

Life

Begum Ikramullah was born into a wealthy family and raised in Calcutta and London. Her mother adhered to traditional Islamic values ​​and her father, the well-known surgeon and politician Hassan Suhrawardy (1884–1946), was liberal. He encouraged the daughter's desire for a good education.

She married at a very young age. Her husband, Mohammed Ikramullah (1903–1963), was a diplomat and became Pakistan's first Foreign Secretary . He supported his wife in her endeavors to receive a modern education. In 1940 she was the first Muslim woman to receive a doctorate from the University of London ( A critical survey of the development of the Urdu novel and short story ).

She was one of the Muslim women who actively participated in the Pakistan movement and played an active role in the political and cultural scene after independence. She was a member of the All India Muslim League .

She had been a Pakistani delegate to the United Nations General Assembly since 1948, where she participated in the Committee for Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs. In the discussion about the UN Human Rights Charter , she achieved that in Article 16 the freedom of marriage was codified and thus child and forced marriages were outlawed. From 1964 to 1967 she was Pakistan's Ambassador to Morocco .

After retiring from big politics, she wrote her memoirs about her life and political career. She died in Karachi in 2000 at the age of 85.

The first edition of her biography From Purdah to Parliament bears the dedication To my husband, who took me out of Purdah and ever since regretted it.

children

Publications (selection)

  • A critical survey of the development of the Urdu novel and short story. London 1945. ( columbia.edu ).
  • Letters to Neena. Kitab Publishers, Karachi 1951.
  • From Purdah to Parliament. The Cresset Press, London 1963 ( indiatoday.intoday.in Review).
  • Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy: A Biography: Oxford University Press 1991.
  • Handbook of Urdu literature: including a critical survey of the development of Urdu literature. New. Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 2003.
  • Urdu proverbs of the women of Delhi. ( Urdu دلى كى خواتين كى كهاوتيں اور محاورے DMG Dillī kī k̲h̲avātīn kī kahāvaten̲ aur muḥavare ), OCLC 58833401 .

See also

literature

  • Bonnie G. Smith (Ed.): The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Volume 1, 2008 ( partial view in the Google book search).

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Begum Shaista Ikramullah - storyofpakistan.com; accessed on May 8, 2017
  2. ↑ pressenza.com
  3. ↑ Quoted from Annemarie Schimmel : Morgenland und Abendland. My west-east life. Autobiography. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-49564-8 , p. 217.
personal data
SURNAME Ikramullah, Shaista Suhrawardy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shaista Ikramullah Suhrawardi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani politician, diplomat and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Calcutta , British India
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2000
Place of death Karachi , Pakistan