Editing Qasim Amin (section)

==Early life==
Amin was born to a [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] father and an Egyptian mother.<ref name="Nelson">{{citation|last=Nelson|first=Cynthia|year=1996|title=Doria Shafik, Egyptian feminist: a woman apart|publisher=American Univ in Cairo Press|isbn=977-424-413-3|page=27|quote=Qasim Amin, the son of an aristocratic Turkish father and respectable middle-class Egyptian mother... }}</ref><ref>Doria Shafik, Egyptian feminist: a woman apart, Cynthia Nelson</ref> His father, Muhammad Amin Bey, served as governor of [[Diyarbekir Vilayet]] before moving the family to [[Alexandria]] where Amin was born. Qasim's father settled in Egypt and became the commander of Khedive [[Isma'il Pasha]]'s army; he also  held large feudal estates in both Alexandria and Diyarbekir.<ref>Amin, Qasim. ''The Liberation of Women: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism.'' Tr. Samiha Sidhom Peterson. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000, p. xi.</ref> Qasim's mother was the daughter of Ahmad Bey Khattab, a son of [[Tahir Pasha (Egypt)|Tahir Pasha]], himself a nephew of [[Muhammad Ali of Egypt|Muhammad Ali Pasha]].<ref>Gendered nations, nationalisms and gender order in the long nineteenth century, Ida Blom, Karen Hagemann, Catherine Hall</ref> Qasim is recorded as a hereditary [[Bey]], both paternally and maternally, in the 'Imperial and Asiatic quarterly review and oriental and colonial record.'<ref>The Imperial and Asiatic quarterly review and oriental and colonial record, Oriental Institute (Woking, England), East India Association (London, England)</ref><ref>The international who's who, Europa Publications, 1956.</ref>