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Indian author

Atiya Fyzee (1 August 1877 – 4 January 1967; also known as Atiya Fyzee-Rahamin, Atiya Begum, Shahinda, Atiya Begum Fyzee Rahamin) was an Indian author and the first woman from South Asia to attend the University of Cambridge.^[1][2][3]

Life

Fyzee was born in Constantinople in 1877 to an IsmailiBohra family related to the Tyabjis.

Writings art and activism

She came to London to attend a teachers training college and she arranged for her diary to be published in India in 1907. Fyzee did not complete the course in London. Noted for her intellectualism, Fyzee's correspondences impressed contemporaries including Muhammad Iqbal, Shibli Naumani, Hafeez Jalandhari and Maulana Muhmmad Ali Jauhar.^[4]

Her letters to her sister Zehra Fyzee were published later with Zehra editing them to tone down references of her affectionate platonic relationship with Muhammad Iqbal^[1][5]

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