Samina Quraeshi (1944-2013) was a Pakistani-American educator, designer, artist and author.
Quraeshi was raised in Karachi, Pakistan and later lived in Massachusetts.
She is the mother of Sadia Shepard, an author and filmmaker, and Cassim Shepard, a New York-based town planner.
As an author she took inspiration from the Sufi tradition of the Indus Valley. She wrote the following books: