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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Tahirih, Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi, Azar Nafisi, Marjane Satrapi, Mahnaz Afkhami, Granaz Moussavi, Farah Karimi, Marina Nemat, Simin Daneshvar, Ghazal Omid, Parvin E'tesami, Simin Behbahani, Pegah Ahmadi, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Niloofar Beyzaie, Mahsati, Shahrnush Parsipur, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Zahra Rahnavard, Roya Hakakian, Siba Shakib, Mina Assadi, Tahereh Saffarzadeh, Mary Apick, Parvin Darabi, Sheema Kalbasi, Mastoureh Ardalan, Camelia Entekhabifard, Najmieh Batmanglij, Mehrangiz Kar, Firoozeh Dumas, Pooran Farrokhzad, Janet Afary, Shahla Sherkat, Farzaneh Aghaeipour, Azadeh Moaveni, Elham Afroutan, Zoya Pirzad, Rosa Jamali, Mahasti Shahrokhi, Jamileh Kadivar, Shahin Assayesh, Mahshid Amirshahi, Farzona, Gulrukhsor Safieva, Shahla Lahiji, Mohtaram Eskandari, Roza Montazemi, Zandokht Shirazi, Noor-ol-Hoda Mangeneh, Sediqeh Dowlatabadi, Zarah Ghahramani, Marzieh Sotoudeh, Lady Amin. Excerpt: Tahirih (Arabic: "The Pure One") or Qurratu'l-Ayn (Arabic: "Solace/Consolation of the Eyes") are both titles of Fatimih Baraghani (1814 or 1817 - August 16-27, 1852), an influential poet and theologian of the Babi Faith in Iran. Her life, influence and execution made her a key figure of the religion. The daughter of Muhammad-Salih Baraghani, she was born into one of the most prominent families of her time. As a young girl she was educated privately by her father, Mulla Muhammad Salih Baraghani, - a phenomenon of a girl at the time - and showed herself a proficient writer. Whilst in her teens she married the son of her uncle with whom she had a difficult marriage. In the early 1840s she became familiar with the teachings of Shaykh Ahmad and began a secret correspondence with his successor Sayyid Kazim Rashti. Tahirih travelled to the Shi'i holy city of Karbala to meet Kazim Rashti, but he died a number of days befor...
