Amina Adil (, ; c. 1930 – 16 November 2004) was a
Tatar
Tatar may refer to:
Peoples
* Tatars, an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar"
* Volga Tatars, a people from the Volga-Ural region of western Russia
* Crimean Tatars, a people from the Crimea peninsula by the B ...
writer and Islamic theologian.
Biography
Amina was born as one of four children in an Islamic Tataric family in
Kazan
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,
TASSR,
UdSSR. Due to harassment from the Communist regime, the family fled first to
EleÅŸkirt
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, and then to
Erzurum
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in
Turkey
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. After 10 years they migrated from there to
Damascus
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.
She married
Sheikh Muhammad Nazim and had four children, two girls and two boys.
Published works
*''Muhammad the Messenger of Islam: His Life & Prophecy'' by Hajjah Amina Adil (Jan 1, 2012)
*''Lore of Light'' by Hajjah Adil (Oct 13, 2008)
*''My Little Lore of Light'' by Karima Sperling and Hajjah Amina Adil (Feb 1, 2009)
External links
Sheikh Nazim's Saltanat TalksOld Talks from Amina Adil
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1930s births
2004 deaths
People from Larnaca
Turkish Cypriot Sunni Muslims
Turkish Cypriot Sufis
Turkish Cypriot writers
Soviet emigrants to Turkey