Education
Baker first met Khan when she attended one of his lectures in San Francisco, after which the pair quickly fell in love.
Baker first met Khan when she attended one of his lectures in San Francisco, after which the pair quickly fell in love.
However, resistance from Baker"s family prevented them from marrying until 1913, at which point she took the name "Ameena Begum". After living in London and Moscow for a time, the family settled in Suresnes, near Paris. She left a collection of 101 poems called "A Rosary of one hundred and one beads".
Some poems were lost in the war of 1940 but 54 have been preserved and were published in 1998.
That special initiation was not to be given to any one else in the Sufi Movement, either in the present or in the future". Hazrat Inayat Khan said in his Autobiography that without Ameena Begum"s help he would never have been able to bring his Sufi Message to the Western world.
Women"s Seclusion in the East, by Amina Begum Inayat Khan. "The Sufi" magazine Number.
3 Volume I, September 1915
Poems from Thy Rosary of a Hundred Beads, a collection of poems written by "Sharda, Pirani Ameena Begum Ora-Ray Inayat Khan".
"Caravanseari" magazine (Canada) November 1988 pp. 31–34
Poems from Thy Rosary of a Hundred Beads by "Sharda, Pirani Ameena Begum Ora-Ray Inayat Khan". Published in book of Hidayat Inayat Khan "Once upon a time.." Groningen (Netherlands) 1998 pp.
53–87
Rosary of a Hundred Beads "Sharda" to "Daya by Pirani Ameena Begum Ora Ray Baker.
Published by Petama books (Zurich), paperback, 64 p.