Background
Ummehani Ashraf was born to Syed Aale Hasan and Syeda Khatoon on 26 December 1949 at Kichaucha Sharif, District AmbedkarNagar, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Syeda Ummehani Ashraf
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Ummehani Ashraf did her primary schooling at the Village madrasa at Kichaucha Shariff. She passed High School as a private candidate in 1966. Encouraged and supported by her husband she went to obtain her Bachelor of Arts(1973), Master of Arts (1975), and Doctor of Philosophy (1981) degrees from Aligarh Muslim University.
Career
She is the wife of Urdu poet and critic, Syed Amin Ashraf, who was a faculty member at the Department of English at the same university. The couple belongs to the family of Hashemite Syeds of Kichaucha Shariff (known as the Ashrafi family). She is the first lady of the Ashrafi clan to earn a doctorate degree and a professorship in a university.
She has set a precedence for women of her clan to aspire for higher education.
She has written five books and a number of research articles and short stories. Ummehani Ashraf is the third child out of five siblings.
Spouse Ummehani Ashraf is married to Syed Amin Ashraf who is an Urdu Ghazal poet and critic. He has produced three poetic anthologies and a critical collection of essays in the form of a book
Several academic awards have been conferred on his poetic anthologies and numerous critical articles and books have come up extolling his poetic artistry.
Education (1975), and Doctor of Philosophy (1981) degrees from Aligarh Muslim University. Professional career Soon after completing her Doctor of Philosophy in 1986 she was appointed Lecturer in Urdu in Women"s College of her Alma Mater. From there she rose to the position of Professor of Urdu in 2002.
