Born: 21-9-1908 URS 30-11-1995
Murshida Shahzadi Khan – de Koningh (Arnhem 21-9-1908 – Den Haag 30-11-1995)
She was born as Willy de Koningh in Arnhem the Netherlands. In 1932 she became a mureed of the Sufi Movement.
She became the wife of Pir-o-Murshid Musharaff Moulamia Khan (after Subhanbi – Savitri van Rossum du Chattel who passed away in India in 1946). They married in 1948.
She led the Banstraat center in The Hague for more than three decades (in the sixties together with her husband). On the fifth of July 1953 she was appointed Sahaba-e-Safa (Knightess of Purety) by Pir-o-Murshid Ali Khan.
During her life she guided numerous mureeds.
Shahzadi is the founder of the Sufi Museum in honor of her deceased husband. That’s why the museum is called Stichting(Foundation) Sufi Museum Pir-o-Murshid Musharaff Khan.
She left her house and all of its objects, her personal archive, books and other historical items she has collected in the course of fifty years to a foundation called The Sufi Museum.
This museum is being relocated to the Anna Paulownastraat 78 in The Hague in the course of 2018.
During her working life, she was a Dutch teacher at a secondary school for girls in The Hague. Later, she became the headmistress of this school.
Shahzadi is buried at the Oud Eik en Duinen cemetary in the Hague next to her husband and his brothers: Sheikh-ul-Masheik Mahboob Khan and Murshid Ali Khan.