Bibliography: XRALHYLB

key	XRALHYLB
title	Táhirih : A Portrait in Poetry
author	Banani, Amin
authority control	Amin Banani
item type	Journal article
publication year	2000
date	2000-06
publication title	Journal of Bahá'í Studies
abstract note	Most accounts of Táhirih have been either adulatory or hagiographic, vituperative and condemnatory, or facile and distortive. She has been depicted either as a saintly martyr, a cunning vixen,. or a fiery feminist. If the truly heroic dimensions of her life and of her character are to be appreciated, she must be viewed as she saw herself and within the context of her own culture. It is her poetry that both reveals the layers of her complex motivations, and makes her accessible. The aim of this essay is to allow her own voice, through her poems, to speak for herself, her time, and her motivations.
pages	1-10
issue	1-2
volume	10
language	English
manual tags	WOMEN; BIOGRAPHY; POETRY; COURAGE; TAHIRIH