Most of women who reached very high level in religious scholarship or religious establishment in Iran are the wives or the daughters of famous religious scholars; religious scholars who have a family legacy. But Nusrat Amin doesn’t...
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The present chapter introduces two Iranian female mujtahidahs, Nuṣrat Amīn (1886 - 1983) and Zuhrah Ṣifātī (1948 - ), who represent like few other contemporaries the status of female religious authority in 20th century Iran, divided by the...
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Place of birth: Isfahan, Iran Place of Demise, Isfahan, Iran Born & Her Family Beygum Aminwas born in 1276 SC (1897 CE) in Isfahan. Her father, Hajji Sayyed Muhammad Ali Amin al-Tujjar Isfahani was a pious and generous man, and her mother was a respectable and benevolent woman. Hajji Sayyed Muhammad …
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