Download or read book T hirih written by Qurrat al-ʻAyn and published by Kalimat Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tahirih's poems are well known among Persian Baha'is, but until now there has been no suitable translation of her work that would give English-speaking readers a sense of her genius. Now Amin Banani, Professor Emeritus at UCLA in Persian history and literature; Jascha Kessler, Professor of English at UCLA; and Anthony A. Lee, historian and award-winning poet, have teamed to produce this translation of her work. The poems are brilliant in emotional impact and prophetic in their themes. They should become familiar parts of Baha'i Feasts, Holy Day celebrations, and devotional gatherings. These poems are a monument to this remarkable woman.
Download or read book The Poetry of hirih written by John S. Hatcher and published by George Ronald Publisher Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present a unique collection of the poetry of Thirih: scholar, poet, and the only woman Letter of the Living. The original Persian texts and annotated English translations are set in their historical context and explained.
Download or read book T hirih the Pure written by Martha L. Root and published by Kalimat Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quickening written by Qurrat al-ʻAyn and published by Baha'i Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly translated collection of stirring poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poetess Tahirih that deals with a subject that has challenged religious scholars throughout the ages, the concept of a last judgment or end of time.
Download or read book Prison Poems written by Mahvash Sabet and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from the Persian by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani based on translations by Violette and Ali Nakhjavani, these poems testify to the courage and the despair, the misery and the hopes of thousands of Iranians struggling to survive conditions of extreme oppression.
Download or read book The Forbidden written by Sholeh Wolpé and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1979 revolution, Iranians from all walks of life, whether Muslim, Jewish, Christian, socialist, or atheist, fought side-by-side to end one tyrannical regime, only to find themselves in the clutches of another. When Khomeini came to power, freedom of the press was eliminated, religious tolerance disappeared, women’s rights narrowed to fit within a conservative interpretation of the Quran, and non-Islamic music and literature were banned. Poets, writers, and artists were driven deep underground and, in many cases, out of the country altogether. This moving anthology is a testament to both the centuries-old tradition of Persian poetry and the enduring will of the Iranian people to resist injustice. The poems selected for this collection represent the young, the old, and the ancient. They are written by poets who call or have called Iran home, many of whom have become part of a diverse and thriving diaspora.
Download or read book Tahirih written by Tahirih and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TAHIRIH Life & Poems of the Great Female Persian Baha'i Poet & Martyr Translation and Introduction Paul Smith TAHIRIH (1817-1852). Tahirih (meaning 'concealed'), also called Qurrat ul-ayn (meaning: 'freshness of the eye') was Zarrin Taj Fatima and this extremely beautiful and intelligent woman led a short and stormy life. Born (like Obeyd Zakani) in Qazvin she became a devotee of the Bab, who from Shiraz had given his prophetic message that would later appear in the form of Baha-ul-lah, the founder of the Baha'is and the self-proclaimed Imam Mahdi (Messiah). She was not only a poet but also wrote prose, knew literature, religious laws and interpretations of the Koran and lectured... very unusual for a woman of that time and previous times in Iran. She travelled to Kerbala and Baghdad spreading the message of the Bab. In Baghdad she was arrested by the governor and sent back to Iran. She became the first woman to appear unveiled before a crowd of women and men. She returned to Qazvin after the Bab was killed and was imprisoned in Tehran. She was thirty-six when sentenced to death after the Shah, who had proposed marriage to her, which she rejected was assassinated, leading to a massacre of the Baha'is. She was influenced in her poetry by Rumi, Jami and especially Hafiz whose winebringer masnavi influenced by Nizami greatly influenced hers. All her poems translated here are for the first time in the correct poetic form. Introduction on her Life, Times & Poetry & on the Forms of Poetry she used. Selected Bibliography. Appendix on 'Book of the Winebringer'. Large Format Paperback 7" x 10" 164 pages. COMMENTS ON PAUL SMITH'S TRANSLATION OF HAFIZ'S 'DIVAN'. "It is not a joke... English version of ALL ghazals of Hafiz is a great feat and of paramount importance. I am astonished." Dr. Mir Mohammad Taghavi (Dr. of Literature) Tehran. "Superb translations. 99% Hafiz 1% Paul Smith." Ali Akbar Shapurzman, translator of many mystical works in English into Persian and knower of Hafiz's Divan off by heart. Paul Smith (b. 1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages... including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Lalla Ded, Mahasti, Iqbal, Ghalib, Rahman Baba, Ibn al-Farid, 'Iraqi, Aatish, Seemab, and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, children's books, biographies and a dozen screenplays. www.newhumanitybooks.com
Download or read book Words Not Swords written by Farzaneh Milani and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman not only needs a room of her own, as Virginia Woolf wrote, but also the freedom to leave it and return to it at will; for a room without that right becomes a prison cell. The privilege of self-directed movement, the power to pick up and go as one pleases, has not been a traditional "right" of Iranian women. This prerogative has been denied them in the name of piety, anatomy, chastity, class, safety, and even beauty. It is only during the last 160 years that the spell has been broken and Iranian women have emerged as a moderating, modernizing force. Women writers have been at the forefront of this desegregating movement and renegotiation of boundaries. Words, Not Swords explores the legacy of sex segregation and its manifestations in Iranian literature and film and in notions of beauty and the erotics of passivity. Milani expands her argument beyond Iranian culture, arguing that freedom of movement is a theme that crosses frontiers and dissolves conventional distinctions of geography, history, and religion. She makes bold connections between veiling and foot binding, between Cinderella and Barbie, between the figures of the female Gypsy and the witch. In so doing, she challenges cultural hierarchies that divert attention from key issues in the control of women across the globe.
Download or read book I Love My Name written by Linda Ahdieh Grant and published by Bellwood Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight-year-old Tahirih finds courage and a connection to her namesake, a nineteenth-century Persian woman poet, women's rights activist, and follower of Báb.
Download or read book Adam s Wish written by Qurrat al-ʻAyn and published by Baha'i Publishing Trust. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tahirih, the remarkable poetess of nineteenth-century Persia, penned many poems that were either thought to be lost or remained untranslated. This outstanding volume contains a number of previously unpublished and largely unknown poems both in their original calligraphy and in English. Many of these poems relate to Tahirih's spiritual beliefs. She often refers to Adam, the first Prophet of God, and the Prophets of the past to reveal her insights into the process by which God empowers his messengers to educate humanity. It is through this process that the wish of Adam and all the Prophets of the past to witness the day when humanity will reach its full spiritual potential is fulfilled. Tahirih announces that day has now come.
Download or read book Materials for the Study of the Bab i religion written by Edward Granville Browne and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tahirih Thealogy written by Starr Saffa and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tahirah Thealogy rips the veil off the premise by most world religions that Messengerhood is a bonding of a male God with a male Manifestation.
Download or read book The Woman Who Read Too Much written by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Breathtaking in its scope and wonderfully illuminating. . . . one of the most powerfully convincing characters in recent historical fiction.” —Alberto Manguel, The Guardian Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her uncle. Others echoed her words, and passed her poems from hand to hand. Everyone spoke of her beauty, and her dazzling intelligence. But most alarming to the Shah and the court was how the poetess could read. As her warnings and predictions became prophecies fulfilled, about the assassination of the Shah, the hanging of the Mayor, and the murder of the Grand Vazir, many wondered whether she was not only reading history but writing it as well. Was she herself guilty of the crimes she was foretelling? Set in the world of the Qajar monarchs, mayors, ministers, and mullahs, this book explores the dangerous yet luminous legacy left by a remarkable person. Bahiyyih Nakhjavani offers a gripping tale that is at once a compelling history of a pioneering woman, a story of nineteenth century Iran told from the street level up, and a work that is universally relevant to our times. “Mordant and seethingly intelligent.” —Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal “An engrossing story.” —Gayatri Devi, World Literature Today “Haunting . . . reminds us all that whether Tudor, Qajar, or Clinton, behind every throne is a queen mother, wife, and sister who runs the show.” —Davar Ardalan, Washington Independent Review “Nakjavani offers a philosophically complex yet lyrically wrought examination of the eternal struggle for women’s rights.” —Carol Haggas, Booklist “Nakhjavani deftly transforms an incomplete history into legend. . . . An expertly crafted epic.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book T hirih written by Ivan Lloyd and published by Desert Rose Publishing (AZ). This book was released on 1999 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1852 a young Persian poetess, named Tahirih, was strangled with her own veil by the Islamic authorities of Tehran. She heralded a new age of equality for women in an otherwise male dominated society. Thousands of her followers, from Baghdad (Iraq) to Kabul (Afghanistan) removed their veils & began the first woman's suffrage movement. These events occurred in 1844 in the harems & women's social clubs of the Ottoman Empire's capital of Constantinople (Istanbul.) They most decidedly pre-empted the women's liberation movement at Seneca Falls by several years.This beautifully presented biography of Tahirih's life contain a series of illustrations by the celebrated "Orientalist" Ivan Lloyd. Mr. Lloyd has captured the beauty & heroism of this courageous Babi poetess by creating a multifaceted work that incorporates a highly readable historical account of her life with a selection of Tahirih's poems skillfully presented in Persian calligraphy accompanied by their English translation. To this he has added nine breathtaking full-color illustrations reproduced from his original oil paintings, that depict the significant events surrounding the life & martyrdom of the most renowned heroine of the Baha'i Faith. Please visit our website www.bella-vista.com/dayspring.
Download or read book Tahirih in History written by Ṣābir Āfāqī and published by Kalimat Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book Sparks of Fire written by Qurrat al-ʻAyn and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sparks of Fire is a collection of poetry by the nineteenth-century Persian poet Táhirih. Translated, annotated, and explicated by authors John S. Hatcher and Amrollah Hemmat, the collection sheds light on the poet's exploration of the emergence of the Bahá'í Faith and the station of its Prophet-Herald, the Báb. The poetry is full of striking imagery and religious symbolism related to the dawn of a new day and the emergence of a new religious movement"--
Download or read book Tahirih The Pure Iran s Greatest Woman written by Marth L. Root and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
