Shaheeda Aamena Bintul Huda

Amina Haider Al-Sadr, the famous Muslim author also known as Bint Al-Huda who was born in 1938 in Kazimya, Iraq, played a significant role in creating Islamic awareness among the Muslim women of Iraq.

Bint-al-Huda considered story writing as a tool to be used to revive Islamic concepts and values. She, tackled in her stories women's issues of concern, at a time when love stories and translated pornographic literature flooded our Islamic world during the 1950's and 60's.
In 1979 when her brother Ayatullah Baqir Sadr was arrested on the orders of Saddam, she brought masses people togeather demanding his release, as a result of which he was later released In 1980 Bint Al-Huda and her brother were arrested. After three days of unimaginable torture, they were murdered on 8th April on the orders of Saddam. Today we lack such Muslim women writers to counter so many secularist women writers in the Muslim world.

English translation of her work is available at www.al-islam.org