Begum Shaista Ikramullah

1915 – 2000

Women of the Movement

Known for

Constituent Assembly member; first Muslim woman PhD from the University of London

Biography

Born into the Suhrawardy family of Bengal, she became the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London. She organized women for the League, was one of the two women in the first Constituent Assembly, and later served as Pakistan's ambassador to Morocco.