Tahirih Qurrat al-ʿAyn and the Women’s Avant-garde in Europe

Tahirih Qurrat al-ʿAyn has come to be seen as the first Iranian woman to openly advocate for the rights of women and the first feminist of her country. But it was among the women’s avant-garde in Europe that she first gained the stature of a feminist heroine. Discussing five cases in five nations, t...

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Published in:Hawwa
Subtitles:“From the Seed of Love We Sow”: Further Research on Tahirih Qurrat al-ʿAyn, edited by Omid Ghaemmaghami and Sasha Dehghani
Main Author: Dehghani, Sasha (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Hawwa
Further subjects:B Lou Salome
B Isabella Grinevskaya
B Europe
B Annemarie Schimmel
B Orientalism
B Comte de Gobineau
B British Suffragette
B Emancipation
B Bābī and Bahā’ī religions
B Marianne Hainisch
B Feminism
B Islam
B Iran
B Theatre
B Veil
B Leo Tolstoy
B Sarah Bernhardt
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Summary:Tahirih Qurrat al-ʿAyn has come to be seen as the first Iranian woman to openly advocate for the rights of women and the first feminist of her country. But it was among the women’s avant-garde in Europe that she first gained the stature of a feminist heroine. Discussing five cases in five nations, this article will show how Tahirih became, across cultural borders, a source of inspiration to Europe’s women avant-garde, especially throughout the second half of the long 19th century, and will suggest some reasons for the decline of public interest in the figure of Tahirih, especially in the period after the second world war.
ISSN:1569-2086
Contains:Enthalten in: Hawwa
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15692086-12341406