Mahinur Qasim (Uyghur: ماھىنۇر قاسىم; Chinese: 玛依努尔·哈斯木; pinyin: Mǎyīnǔ'ěr Hāsīmù; August 15, 1929 – February 28, 2021), also spelled Maynor Kasim and Mah-e-Noor Qasim, was a Uyghur political leader in Xinjiang, China and the widow of Ehmetjan Qasimi, a prominent Xinjiang revolutionary leader.
[1] She married Ehmetjan Qasimi, a leader of the Second East Turkestan Republic (ETR), in Yining on January 15, 1945, and became his secretary.
[1] After her husband died on August 27, 1949, in an airplane crash in the Soviet Union en route to Beijing to attend the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mahinur Qasim remained active in public life.
[1] In the 1980s and 1990s, she served as a vice chair of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th All-China Women's Federation,[3] and was elected to the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress in 1988.
[1] A Pictorial Memoir of the Wife of Ehmetijan Qasimi, Leader of the Three Districts Revolution 《三区革命头号领导人阿合买提江夫人的回忆图册》 was published in October 2002.