Tahirih in History:
Perspectives on Qurratu’l-‘Ayn
from East and West
Table of Contents


Preface by Sabir Afaqi

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

Bahá’í Sources

‘Abdu’l-Baha
 Jináb-i Táhirih

Shoghi Effendi
Valiant Táhirih

Eastern Impressions

Sabir Afaqi
 Qurrat’ul-‘Ayn in Urdu Literature

Muhammad Iqbal
Javid-nama: The Sphere Of Jupiter (Excerpts)

M. Hidayat Hosain
A Female Martyr of the Babi Faith

Muhanmmad Ishaque
Qurratu’l-Ayn—a Babi Martyr

Mohammad Ali Siddiqui
Qurrat’ul-Ayn: A Profile In Courage

Masudu’l Hasan
Qurratu’l-Ayn Tahira

Khwaja Masud
The Cry of Tahira

Süleyman Nazif
from Nasiruddin Shah ve Babiler

Western Considerations

Edward G. Browne
Kurratu’l-‘Ayn

A.-L.-M. Nicolas
Qourrèt-oul-Aïne

Abbas Amanat
Qurratu’l-Ayn: 
The Remover of the Veil

Farzaneh Milani
Becoming a Presence: Tahereh Qorratol’Ayn

Susan Stiles Maneck
Tahirih: A Religious Paradigm of Womanhood

Negar Mottahedeh
Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories

Jan Teofil Jasion
Táhirih on the Russian Stage

The Writings of Qurratu’l-‘Ayn

Denis MacEoin
The Writings of Qurrat al-‘Ayn Qazvini

A Prayer of Táhirih

A Gathering of the Poems

Bibliography

Contributors

Poems of Táhirih
in the original languages

 

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