“Alike in virtue of her marvellous beauty, her rare intellectual gifts, her fervid eloquence, her fearless devotion and her glorious martyrdom, she stands forth incomparable and immortal amidst her countrywomen.” (E.G. Browne)

“Tahirih … is perhaps the most controversial woman in Iranian history. A poet, an activist, a scholar, a teacher, a mystic, and finally a martyr, this woman stunned her nation in the middle of the nineteenth century and became a legend...” (Publisher’s Note)

This latest book on the only female Letter of the Living book contains a number of articles about Táhirih and her life and how the world responded to it, from a range of authors (Eastern and Western, Christian, Muslim and Bahá’í, nineteenth- and twentieth-century) with others that deal with related matters. General readers will find it somewhat uneven but there is much in it of historical importance and of genuine interest.

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