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Abstract: Implications of Tahirih's revolutionary act at Badasht in terms of a decisive break with Islamic history; also Shaykh Abu Turab's recollections of the event and his literary role in Nabil's Dawn-Breakers. Notes: First published in UCLA Journal of History 17 (1997): 59-81, then in H-Bahai's Occasional Papers 2:2 (February, 1998) at h-net.org. The version below has been proofread and updated by Mike Thomas (2020), and more references added; see his improved Word doc. See also another version of this paper, Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat al-'Ayn's Unveiling and the Persian Massacre of the Bábís. |
Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories:
The Unveiling of the Babi Poetess Qurrat al-'Ayn-Tahirih in the Gardens of Badasht
by Negar Mottahedeh
published in Occasional Papers in Shaykhi, Babi and Bahá'í Studies, 2:2H-Bahá'í, 1998-02
Download: mottahedeh_ruptured_spaces_tahirih.pdf.
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