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TRIBUTES have poured in for a pioneering Bradford community leader who helped shape the lives of Muslim women across the UK. Nuzhat Ali was a founding member of the Bradford-based Muslim Women s Council, an award-winning writer and Bradford Cathedral s first Muslim interfaith development officer. She died on Tuesday of cancer, aged 57. Born in Bradford, Nuzhat did a Master’s degree in Islamic Studies and worked tirelessly across different faiths and communities. She won the Channel 4/Northumbria University Writing for Television Award at the Northern Writers’ Awards in 2015 and wrote several plays, including When George Came to Bradford, and compiled a book on the shared heritage of head coverings across Abrahamic faiths. A teacher and mentor for young people, she worked with h the Young Muslims organisation and the Islamic Society of Britain, organised many Muslim Women s Council (MWC) events and was involved in developing its women-led mosque initiative.

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