Background
She was born into a wealthy Kashmiri Sunni Muslim family. She is the daughter of businessman and congressman Feroze Peerzada.
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Murcyleen Peerzada
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She finished her schooling at Podar International School, Santacruz (Mumbai) and graduated with a degree in Mass Media from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Juhu (Mumbai).
Career
Peerzada/Pirzada is one of the prominent Sayyid family names in Kashmir. Peerzada always wanted to be an actress and "could not wait to act in a movie". In her last year of college, she "got offers from casting directors who would scout for faces in campuses and on Facebook".
Her first project was a Salman Khan starrer, Ek Tha Tiger, in 2011 when she was 19, and she was almost signed as the lead in Maneesh Sharma"s "Shudh Desi Romance".
The dramatic turn came in her life with Yash Chopra"s death. As she was very close to Yash Chopra, his death disturbed her badly and she was depressed for three or four months.
In a process of looking for an answer she came across the videos of Islamic speakers like Nouman Ali Khan, Zakir Naik and Yasmin Mogahed. After watching the videos and reading Islamic books, she quit everything and turned to Islamic Studies.
Her story is known as "YRF (Yash Raj Films) To IRF (Islamic Research Foundation)".
However, on January 23, 2016, due to some personal reasons Murcyleen Peerzada parted ways from Zakir Naik’s organization (IRF)
Peerzada is a part of IRF"s Ladies Wing, Mumbai, which is headed by the Islamic scholar Zakir Naik. In August 2014, Peerzada organised her first ever event, the Srinagar Peace Conference, which was attended by over 4000 women, making it the largest organised Islamic event for women in Kashmir. Several Islamic women speakers including Farhat Naik addressed Kashmiri women on various issues.
Peerzada is known to actively make a wider platform for women in the field of dawah.
