Overview
Rejoice in My Gladness is a biography of one of the leading female voices, Tahirih, of the 1800s. The book tells how she began teaching the equality between men and women in largely Muslim Persia and how she was eventually martyred for her outspokenness and courage in the face of the male governing establishment in Persia. Drawing on extensive research and steeped in the culture of daily life in nineteenth-century Persia, this is the definitive account of the life of Tahirih-- a renowned poetess and one of the leading feminists of her time. Rejoice in My Gladness follows the life of Tahirih from her birth through her adulthood, covering important events such as her marriage, her controversial conversion to the Baha'i Faith, and her execution due to her beliefs and activities. The reader will see how Tahirih changed the face of women's rights forever, as she was the first woman in recorded Middle Eastern history to remove her veil before an assembly of men. At her execution, her last words have been recorded as, "You can kill me as soon as you like, but you will never stop the emancipation of women."
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781618511690 |
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| Publisher: | Baha'i Publishing Trust, U.S. |
| Publication date: | 04/16/2020 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 383 |
| Sales rank: | 781,179 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface: Her Defining Moment 1
1 News of the Birth of a Female Child 5
Táhirih's names
Her antecedents, her hometown, her nation
Her birth
Her family's Islamic female culture.
2 Wine Cup in the Wilderness 21
The Arabian shaykh
The Youth from Bani-Hashem
Surmising salvation
The mischief of the envious one
Uncle Taqí and the saint
Love and nemesis.
3 The Harp of Love and Pain 39
A love story
Poets and love
Love and insight
The education of a poet
Táhirih's beauty
The veil
Some outspoken sisters
Solemnity and silence.
4 Drums of Ceremony 59
Socializing and philosophizing
Dawn prayer, Ramadan, and the drums of devotion
Muharram and the fascination of weeping
Naw-Rúz.
5 Ideal Couple, Opportune Marriage, Irresistible Moon 73
A marriage made in heaven
Trouble in paradise
The Atabat
Táhirih's children
Progressive revelation
Claiming her path.
6 1844, Iraq 91
Absence and presence
Siyyid Kazim's farewell
Mullah Husayn's leadership
Shiraz, City of Love
The pilgrim from Shiraz
Táhirih's leadership
The pact of "Yes, alas."
7 1844, Europe and the United States 103
The Revolt of Islam
The Woman Clothed with the Sun
The Code and the Common Law
Female crusaders
Hijab in London
The Great Disappointment
Zion.
8 1844, Iran 119
Shiraz and its visitors
Civil (or uncivil) unrest
"Enter therein in peace, secure." The Most Beautiful of Stories
The arrival of the brethren
Flooded by enlightenment.
9 As a Slave Sitting Under a Sword 137
Telling the Most Beautiful of Stories
First news of the Báb in the Western world
Identifying the Báb
Khadíjih, His sweet love
Identifying Bahá.
10 Fire and Ice 157
Táhirih's "secret of secrets." Mullah 'Alí's fate
Lost promise
The London Times reports
Al-Táhirih's command
The posterity of the Prophet
In the abode of the enemy.
11 Murder 183
People of the Absolute
Debate and debacle
The Zindiq in the inimical city
The cutting edge
Sacrificial lambs, unappeased hunger
Flight.
12 The Price of a Cashmere Shawl 201
The Báb in custody
Choler, cholera, a drink of water
The transformation of an oppressor
Vahíd
"The mountains of Azerbaijan too have their claims."
13 1848, Iran-Love's Amplitude 213
Refuge in Tehran
A providential garden
Pilgrimage of the great seeker to Mah-ku
A new "gate" in the city of the Eighth Imam
Onward to the Verdant Isle.
14 1848, Iran-The Golden Looking-Glass 231
The Conference of Badasht and its aftermath.
15 1848, Iran-Under the Tiger's Eye 243
The Báb's trial in Tabriz.
16 1848, United States and Europe 255
From tea table to speaker's platform
"Bread or death." Progressive Friends
Truth speaks
Improvisation
"Mankind is one and beats with one great heart."
17 "And I Will Bury My Soul With My Own Hand." 271
Fugitive wanderings
The master-stroke
Tabarsí.Bahá'u'lláh in Amul
The death of Mullah Husayn
The death of Quddús
Renewed captivity.
18 Thralls of Yearning Love 291
Great Commander
Pivot of the Universe
"… that magic can only captivate the pure in heart …" The Plains of Karbala again
The death of the Báb
Women to the barricades.
19 The Solitude of the Sun 311
"Lord of Love thyself proclaim …" The princess
Attempt on the life of the shah
"Candle decoration" and "retaliation by blood." Eclipse
Diamonds
"Thee, and thee alone …"
Notes 333
Bibliography 367