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Ulma Bi

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Birthplace: India
Death: 1902
India
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Daughter of Ala al-Din "Dr. A.M. Pathan" Khan and Awliya Bi
Wife of Inayat Kahn, founder of The Sufi Order in the West

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About Ulma Bi

"...death of his newly-wed cousin-bride, Dr. Pathan's only child, Ulma Bi." p. 83. [note: "Dr. A.M. Pathan" was the name adopted by Ala al-Din Khan, aka Alaoddin Khan, aka Dr. Pathan the Elder.]

The figure legend of the color plate "Zanana photo" refers to Awliya Bi as "daughter of Mawlabaksh's sister, wife of 'Ala al-Din Khan, mother of Ulma Bi."

Ulma Bi was Hazrat Inayat Khan's first wife. According to Sharif David Graham, Ulma Bi was terminally ill at the time they married, and they married as a favor to her father so that she wouldn't die unmarried. Source: Sharif David A. Graham. The Life and Teaching of Sufi Hazrat Inayat Khan, Berkeley, May 8-9, 2010. At 6:31 (min:sec) of recording part 2 of 9 of the complete version (not the abridged 4 part version). https://sufipaths.net/tuning-the-world.htm

References

See pp.61, 63 (figures, genealogical trees), p. 83, and the figure legend for the color plate after p. 48 labelled "Zanana photo," in...

   Shaikh al-Mashaik Mahmood Khan. Mawlabakhshi Rajkufu A'lakhandan: The Mawlabakhsh Dynastic Lineage, 1833-1972. In: Pir Zia Inayat-Khan (ed.). A Pearl in Wine: Essays in the Life, Music and Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan. (Omega Publications, New Lebanon, NY. 2001). pp. 3-63.
   Shaikh al-Mashaik Mahmood Khan. Hazrat Inayat: A Biographical Perspective. In: Pir Zia Inayat-Khan (ed.). A Pearl in Wine: Essays in the Life, Music and Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan. (Omega Publications, New Lebanon, NY. 2001). pp. 65-126.
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Ulma Bi's Timeline

1902
1902
India
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India