Pirani Ameena Begum Meher Baba Maheboob Khan Mohammed Ali Khan Musharaff Khan Samuel L. Lewis Fazal Inayat-Khan Vilayat Inayat Khan Hidayat Inayat Khan Zia Inayat Khan Shabda Kahn Johan Witteveen Sufism Reoriented Universel Murad Hassil Pirani Ameena Begum (Hindustani: अमीना बेगम / امینہ بیگم; born Ora Ray Baker; 8 May 1892 – 1 May 1949)[1] was a writer and poet who was the wife of Sufi Master Inayat Khan[2] and the mother of their four children: World War II SOE agent Noor-un-Nisa (1914–1944), Vilayat (1916–2004), Hidayat (1917–2016) and Khair-un-Nisa (Claire) (1919–2011).

[3] Baker first met Inayat Khan in New York in 1911 when her half-brother and guardian, Pierre Bernard, engaged the master musician and mystic to teach his ward Indian music.

Baker found his Indian home address among Bernard's papers when cleaning his desk; the letter was forwarded and she sailed for England alone.

Some poems were lost during World War II, but 54 have been preserved and were published in 1998.

[10] Hazrat Inayat Khan said in his autobiography that without Ameena Begum's help he would never have been able to bring his Sufi Message to the Western world.