TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sabir Afaqi
AU  - Jan Teofil Jasion
TI  - Tahirih in History : Perspectives on Qurratu'l-'Ayn from East and West
SN  - 1890688355 (pbk.)
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - Kalimat Press
KW  - Tahirih
KW  - History
KW  - Babism
KW  - Letters of the Living
N1  - One hundred and fifty years ago, Tahirih stunned Iran and shocked her fellow believers by removing her veil in the company of men at the conference of Badasht.  This volume is a compilation of historical work that has been written about her in the years since.  It brings together most of what we know about Tahirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn. Included is history from Baha'i sources: 'Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi; the work of scholars in India and Pakistan, where Tahirih's work is well known; and essays by Western scholars, such as E. G. Browne, A.-L.-M. Nicolas (translated from French), Abbas Amanat, Farzaneh Milani, and others.  Many of these are new research published in this volume for the first time.  An essential book for anyone interested in Tahirih!; Table of Contents
Sabir Afaqi 
Preface
xi
Acknowledgements
xv
Baha'i Sources
'Abdu'l-Baha 
Jinab-i Tahirih
3
Shoghi Effendi 
Valiant Tahirih
15
Eastern Impressions
Sabir Afaqi 
Qurrat'ul-'Ayn in Urdu Literature
23
Muhammad Iqbal 
Javid-nama: The Sphere Of Jupiter (Excerpts)
45
M. Hidayat Hosain 
A Female Martyr of the Babi Faith
51
Muhanmmad Ishaque 
Qurratu'l-Ayn-a Babi Martyr
57
Mohammad Ali Siddiqui 
Qurrat'ul-Ayn: A Profile In Courage
67
Masudu'l Hasan 
Qurratu'l-Ayn Tahira
71
Khwaja Masud 
The Cry of Tahira
75
Suleyman Nazif
Passages on Tahirih from: Nasiruddin Shah ve Babiler
79
Western Considerations
Edward G. Browne 
Kurratu'l-'Ayn
85
A.-L.-M. Nicolas 
Qourr't-oul-Ane: Prodigy in 'Knowledge and Beauty
97
Abbas Amanat 
Qurratu'l-Ayn: The Remover of the Veil
113
Farzaneh Milani 
Becoming a Presence: Tahereh Qorratol'Ayn
159
Susan Stiles Maneck 
Tahirih: A Religious Paradigm of Womanhood
185
Negar Mottahedeh 
Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories
203
Jan Teofil Jasion 
Tahirih on the Russian Stage
231
The Writings of Qurratu'l-'Ayn
Denis MacEoin 
The Writings of Qurrat al-'Ayn Qazvini
241
A Prayer of Tahirih
A Gathering of the Poems
253
Poems of Tahirih in the original languages
257
Bibliography
265
Contributors
280
Poems of Tahirih in the Original Languages

ER  -