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Tahirih Qurrat al-Ayn was first Iranian women right activist, Bab-i fighter ,theologian,poet. Tahirih was a woman of letters who lived in the nineteenth-century. Her name is synonymous with the emancipation of women and social justice and her life has inspired generations of women ever since, particularly Iranian women’s right movements.Since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran forbids any literature or discourse that portrays Tahirih in a positive light. Her name has been removed from the latest editions of history books published in Iran.

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Farzaneh Milani

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Abbas Amanat

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Bahiyyah Nakhjavani

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Soraya Adambakan

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Moojan Momen

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Nilofar Beyzaei

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Jalal Alavinia

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Mansooreh Shojaei

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Lewis Franklin

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