Amina Adil ( tt-Cyrl, Әминә Гадил, tr, Emine Âdil; c. 1930 – 16 November 2004) was a

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

Biography

Amina was born as one of four children in an Islamic Tataric family in

Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...

TASSR The Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Татарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан Автономияле Совет Соци� ...

UdSSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. Due to harassment from the Communist regime, the family fled first to

Eleşkirt Eleşkirt ( ku, Zêdikan) is a town and district of Ağrı Province in Turkey. Its name is a transference from Alashkert ( hy, Ալաշկերտ, translit=Alaškert), the valley's former administrative centre but now a village known as Toprakkale. ...

, and then to

Erzurum Erzurum (; ) is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It is the largest city and capital of Erzurum Province and is 1,900 meters (6,233 feet) above sea level. Erzurum had a population of 367,250 in 2010. The city uses the double-headed eagle as ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. After 10 years they migrated from there to

Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...

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 Talks

Old Talks from Amina Adil

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