Kassim Muhammad Amin was born on 1 December 1863 and died on 23 April 1908. His father was Turkish and his mother was Egyptian, from Upper Egypt. When he was forty-five years old, Kassim Amin was a judge, writer, and social reformer. He was known as the leader of the Egyptian feminist movement. His call for social freedom and justice contributed to the establishment of the Egyptian University. He also called for education for the sake of the national renaissance, and for the liberation of the Arabic language from its old forms.