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	Noor Inayat Khan —
		Noor was the great great great granddaughter of the celebrated Muslim ruler of Mysore - Tipu Sultan, who in the 18th Century fought the British, stemming their advance into South India.
		Hazrat Inayat Khan married an American, Ora Meena Ray Baker Noor (distantly related to Mary Eddy Baker founder of the Christian Science movement) The couple married in Paris and settled in Russia.
		Noor believed in the principles of ahimsa (non violence) but in the face of overwhelming Nazi aggression of 1939-40 she felt compelled to take an active role in the liberation of Europe.
	www.writespirit.net /authors/noor_inayat_khan (1241 words)

	BBC - History - Noor Inayat Khan (1914 - 1944)
		Noor Inayat Khan was born on New Year's Day 1914 in Moscow to an Indian father and an American mother.
		Khan escaped to England after the fall of France and in November 1940 she joined the WAAF (the Women's Auxiliary Air Force).
		In October Khan was betrayed by a Frenchwoman and arrested by the Gestapo.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/inayat_khan_noor.shtml (353 words)

	Inayat Khan, Noor - Biography
		Noor Inayat Khan was one of the most romantic of the SOE agents and one whose suitability to be sent into the field has often been questioned.
		Inayat Khan, Noor's father, took his family to pre-revolutionary Russia, where they were taken up by members of the Imperial Court and where a daughter was born in the Kremlin on New Year's Day, 1914.
		Noor had eluded the Gestapo all through the summer and into the early autumn and at the end of September told some of her friends that she expected to be going back to England very soon.
	www.64-baker-street.org /agents/agent_fany_noor_inayat_khan.html (2606 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Education Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Noor Inayat Khan was the great-great-great granddaughter of Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore whose celebrated military prowess stalled the advance of the East India Company forces at the end of the 18th century.
		By the time Noor was born, in January 1914, the Inayat Khans were living and performing in Moscow, and her mother, the former Ora Ray Baker, had donned sari and veil as "Amina Begum".
		Noor volunteered for the WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) in England and started on the long road of signals and wireless training that would lead her — a woman raised in France, perfectly bilingual, and with advanced radio skills — to recruitment as a secret agent in November 1942.
	www.harpa.com /harpahom000z3l5h4x9r7/053/noor.htm (977 words)

	I Am That... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Noor was born in Russia in 1914 and after a brief spell living in England the family relocated to France.
		Since Noor stood out as an accomplished wireless operator and was also bilingual in French and English she was invited to join the SOE on a perilous mission as a radio operative in occupied France.
		Noor always remained a great patriot to India and was a firm believer in Indian independence, but in the circumstances she found herself, she was willing to fight on behalf of India’s occupier, such was her belief in freedom.
	www.earthrites.org /turfing/index.php?/archives/488-I-Am-That....html (1722 words)

	MusicalNirvana - Articles on Inayat Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Inayat Khan Rahmatkhan Pathan was the grandson of Prof.
		Inayat Khan who sang and played on the Vina was for years travelling in the south of India where his singing was highly admired, also stayed for a year in Calcutta.
		From 1910 to 1926, Inayat Khan's life was a saga of constant touring all-over Europe, UK and repeated trips to U.S.A. Everywhere he gave an incredibly large number of lectures on Indian philosophy, mysticism, and sufism, and lecture-demonstrations on Indian music.
	www.musicalnirvana.com /hindustani/inayatkhan_articles.html (3067 words)

	Noor Inayat Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Owing to betrayals alleged to both Henri Dericourt and Renée Garry, in October 1943 the SD finally arrested Inayat Khan and interrogated her at the SD Headquarters in Paris.
		Although Inayat Khan would not reveal any information about her activities under interrogation, the SD did find her notebooks which apparently contained all the messages that she had sent and received as an SOE operative.
		Inayat Khan continued to refuse to give any information on her work or her fellow operatives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan (3116 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Noor's posthumous career as a war heroine began in earnest in 1952, when her friend and comrade Jean Overton Fuller did her best to dispel the fog of confusion and misinformation left by her death in a book, Madeleine - Noor's Resistance codename.
		Noor Inayat Khan was the great-great-great granddaughter of Tipu Sultan, the Muslim ruler of Mysore whose celebrated military prowess stalled the advance of East India Company forces at the end of the 18th century.
		As for her Muslim identity, the Inayat Khans' brand of all-inclusive Sufism would count as heresy or worse to the kind of hardliner who now presumes to speak for Islam in and to the West.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/features/article346472.ece (1796 words)

	NOOR - E. Nora H. Amrani
		Noor-un-Nisa (Nora) Inayat Khan was one of the four children born to Indian-born Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan and American-born Ora Ray Baker.
		Noor had a very close friend who was a high rabbi and she was very interested in Judaism.
		It seems it's the right time to start sharing Noor's truth of her life and this short article is only the beginning...getting warmed up to writing the rest of it, and for me it's a big step because it's taken a long time to feel comfortable enough to publicly admit this.
	www.vibrani.com /Noor.htm (2969 words)

	CD Baby: GEOFFREY ARMES: Noor
		Discovering the life – and death - of Noor Inayat Khan, especially in the context of her father’s writing and work (Sufi musician, writer, philosopher Hazrat Inayat Khan) was something of a call to action.
		Noor, the follow up to his highly regarded Spirit Dwelling CD, takes us on another musical journey, this time weaving together the tragic story of a sufi princess, with his own spiritual musings about her life.
		On one level is the story of Noor herself, on another is Armes' place in the middle of this telling of her story, and thirdly is the unique music fabric he has woven here.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/geoffreyarmes3 (842 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Frontpage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Noor was recruited by the Special Operations Executive, a crack organisation set up by wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, because of her knowledge of French and her skill as a radio operator.
		She was born in Moscow in 1914 to Hazrat Inayat Khan and his American wife Ora Ray Baker who, after the outbreak of World War I, moved to England where they had three more children.
		It was strange that driven by their ideological beliefs Noor and his brother went to work for the same British authorities who were suspicious of their father who had met Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu in London, and the family moved to Paris.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060906/asp/frontpage/story_6706813.asp (636 words)

	SOI : About Us : Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan
		Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan was the first child of Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan and his American wife, Amina Begum (nee Ora Ray Baker).
		Noor, who espoused the Gandhian principles of non-violence, was outraged by the depredations of the Nazis.
		The Intelligence officer who trained Noor in London and his opposite number, who oversaw her interrogation in Paris, may never have met, but they are in agreement on at least one thing.
	www.sufiorder.org /noor.html (593 words)

	Noor- Daily Express - Rediff Personal Homepages
		For Noor Inayat Khan was an Indian princess.
		Noor's father was a Sufi mystic, and she had been brought up with a fanatical devotion to telling the truth.
		Noor's dusky skin put her at particular risk of detection because it was likely to attract the attention of the Nazis.
	members.rediff.com /noorkhan/dailyexp.htm (1433 words)

	The Hindu : Magazine / Interview : Story of an unlikely heroine
		Unlikely as it seemed on the surface, it was her background that made her volunteer; that gave her the inner strength to survive the Gestapo for as long as she did; to respond to humiliation and torture with dignity, and to die without having disclosed any information to her captives.
		But one of Hazrat Inayat Khan's well-known precepts was, "Shatter your ideals on the rock of Truth." And Noor had indeed shattered her ideals on the rock of Truth.
		Noor and her brother Vilayat, who later continued his father's work of running the Sufi Order in the West, decided that to refrain from contributing to the war because of their principles of non-violence would be equivalent to supporting Hitler.
	www.hindu.com /mag/2006/08/06/stories/2006080600080500.htm (720 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| The Tiger Claw by Shauna Singh Baldwin
		When Noor Khan’s father, a teacher of mystical Sufism, dies, Noor is forced to bow, along with her mother, sister and brother, to her uncle’s religious literalism and ideas on feminine propriety.
		Just as Noor was trying to send her Armand a message in 1943, some woman is trying to reach her "enemy combatant" husband through the International Red Cross, hoping he is alive after two years in prison, hoping he has not been tortured.
		As I wrote, Noor taught me each of us is presented a choice at every moment, to acquiesce or resist, to be faithful to the values of love and justice or to compromise our principles for the sake of comfort and advancement.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676976205 (2412 words)

	Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		And women such as Noor Inayat Khan, an Indian princess whose "clumsiness" and "timidity" in training did not stop her being one of the first female agents sent to France.
		Executed with her was Noor Inayat Khan, a princess by birth and children's author by occupation.
		Khan's "natural clumsiness" is also cited as a drawback in explosives training.
	www.iamheart.org /articles/noor-un-nisa4.html (1404 words)

	The Tribune - Magazine section - Saturday Extra
		Her father Inayat Khan and his brothers were professional singers of the Baroda Gharana singing both Hindustani and Carnatic style ragas.
		Inayat was a powerfully built, handsome man with a short Muslim-style beard and wore a gold brocade turban in the manner of ustads of music.
		Inayat Khan discovered that there were more takers for Sufism than Indian classical music.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060708/saturday/above.htm (1014 words)

	Noor Inayat Khan; harpist, writer and spy.
		Noor Inayat Khan was born in 1914 in St.Petersburg.
		Noor (whose name translates as 'light of womanhood') grew up talented, educated and beautiful and was a writer of children's stories, many of which were published in France.
		Noor is actually the girl standing by the harp, holding the harp's column.
	www.harpcolumn.com /blogs/one-entry?entry_id=63349 (856 words)

	BBC - History - Noor Inayat Khan: Life of a Spy Princess
		Like all the Inayat Khan children, Vilayat was a musician, playing the cello and the violin.
		Following Noor's disappearance in France, Vilayat searched tirelessly for his sister and it was partly through his dogged determination to find the truth that the real facts emerged.
		Throughout his life he was haunted by the memory of what had happened to his sister after she had been betrayed and captured by the Germans.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/programmes/timewatch/gallery_spy_03.shtml (256 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		While public information was available on Noor’s background and early life, much detail on her work as a spy and eventual fate was subject to information gaps and contradictory reports.
		Noor and her brother Vilayat left France just before it fell to the Nazis, and both volunteered for war service.
		Noor wound up in the SOE, training as a radio operator and becoming, in 1943, the SOE’s first woman radio operator to be flown into occupied France.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main18.asp?filename=hub070806The_spy.asp (890 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| The Tiger Claw by Shauna Singh Baldwin
		As the novel begins, we’re thrown into a bleak German prison cell with Noor, where she is shackled hand and foot and freezing from the winter’s cold.
		Growing up in France, Noor is extremely close with her liberal Muslim father, but when he dies, Noor’s conservative uncle Tajuddin and her brother Kabir govern the family.
		Noor is faced then with the choice between defying her family and turning against her heart.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676976212 (2714 words)

	Noor Inayat Khan
		Noor was the great-great-great-granddaughter of Tipu Sultan, the eighteenth-century Muslim ruler who died in the struggle against the British.
		Noor was taken to Nazi Germany where she was imprisoned at Karlsruhe.
		In 1949 Noor Inayat Khan was posthumously awarded the George Cross.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SOEnoor.htm (1206 words)

	PRINCESS NOOR APPRECIATION SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL
		The birth of Noor Inayat Khan took place on January 2nd, 1914 in the Kremlin; a strange place indeed, for an Indian Princess and direct descendant of Tipu Sultan, the last Muslim sovereign of South India.
		After undergoing extensive training in the Special Operations Executive, Inayat Khan was the first woman operator to be infiltrated into enemy occupied France,on 16 June 1943.
		Noor Inayat Khan's George Cross was published in the London Gazette on 5 April 1949.
	www.angelfire.com /co/begumnoor (863 words)

	World Music Central - Noor Inayat Khan Inspired CD
		Noor, an accomplished musician and writer in her own right was the daughter of well-known Sufi commentator and musician Hazrat Inyat Khan, and led an eventful, if short life, that ended in Dachau, September 1944.
		Hazrat Inayat Khan was a pacific Sufi musician, and so was his daughter, prior to Hitler's invasion of their adopted home country of France.
		Noor is available as a conventional CD here, and also via website downloads at www.omstream.com and itunes.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /article.php/20061112223323357 (305 words)

	Mukherjee pays homage to forgotten spy
		"Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan was an extraordinary heroic woman who fought and gave her life for freedom and liberty," Mukherjee wrote in the visitors book on Sunday after going around the two-storied house and a monument built in her memory in the courtyard.
		This is the first time that India has officially acknowledged her as just three weeks back in Parliament, Mukherjee had said the government had no intention of honouring the brave spy with a posthumous award.
		Noor Inayat was posthumously awarded a George Cross by the British and the Croix de Geurre award by the French.
	in.rediff.com /news/2006/sep/05noor.htm (339 words)

	Noor Inayat Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Noor Inayat Khan M.B.E., Croix de Guerre (with Gold Star) was dispatched to France to join the Prosper Special Operations Executive Network as a radio operator (with the codename Madeleine) in June 1943, only to be betrayed to the Gestapo and arrested in October of that year.
		Throughout her captivity she showed considerable courage, refusing to divulge any information to her interrogators and making at least two attempts to escape; she was eventually transferred to the concentration camp at Dachau, where she was executed on 12 September 1944.
		In recognition of her gallantry, Noor Inayat Khan was posthumously awarded the George Cross on 05 April 1949.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /HEROISM/Noor.html (126 words)

	Daughter of Sufism - Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan
		The greatest tragedy in the family was the brutal political assassination of Inayat Khan's beloved daughter Noor, a highly sensitive, talented, and clairvoyant girl, who had later become a secret agent working for the French Resistance Movement against the Nazis.
		Thus tragically ended the young life of the vivacious Noor Inayat Khan (1914 to 1944) at the age of 29.
		Pir Vilayat's sister, Noor, worked with the French Resistance before she was captured and executed at the Dachau concentration camp.
	www.freewebs.com /cdcplus/sufi.html (1026 words)

	A 'Sufi Princess' Who Spied for the Allies in WW2 Inspires a New CD Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		New York, New York (PRWEB) October 23, 2006 -- Hazrat Inayat Khan was a pacific Sufi musician, and so was his daughter, prior to Hitler's invasion of their adopted home country of France.
		Geoffrey says, “Discovering the life - and death -- of Noor Inayat Khan, especially in the context of her father's writing and work was something of a call to action.
		Noor is available as a conventional CD via Geoffrey's website at www.GeoffreyArmes.com and Cdbaby, and also via website downloads at omstream and itunes.
	prweb.com /releases/2006/10/prweb452480.htm (563 words)

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