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Najat al-Muslimat [Salvation of Muslim women], 1809 or 1810
A religious guide for Muslim women, written by Nuri Jahan Tihrani, daughter of Haji ‘Abd al-Ghaffar Tihrani.
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Collection of essays (Khaqaniyah)
A collection of essays with a list of contents in the beginning. It includes a part in which Shaykh Ahmad Ahsa’i answers Fathʻali Shah's questions. Two of them are about marriage in heaven and the number of wives a man can have in heaven. Sayyid Abd al-Baqi Husayni Kashani is the scribe.
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Kulsum nanah
The book of "Five ʻUlamaʼ" or "Kulsum nanah," attributed to Aqa Jamal Khansari, created originally in Safavid era. The author provides an account of women's beliefs and rituals and attributes them to five women, one of them named Kulsum nanah. The book is written in fifteen chapters, including: on ablution, on women's prayers, on fasting, on marriage, on the wedding night, on childbirth, on first bath after giving birth, on musical instruments and when they should be played, on wives and husbands relations, on foods for vows, to prevent evil eye, on mahrams, on acceptance of women's...
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Biographies of Sufi women, 1817 or 1818
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Muhammad Shahi biographical dictionary
In this biographical dictionary, names and poems of about two hundred poets are mentioned. There are some poems about women as well. Bahman Mirza, the son of ʻAbbas Mirza, the son and the Crown Prince of Fathʻali Shah is the producer and Muhammad Hasan Tabrizi is the scribe.
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Murshid al-Nisaʼ
A book written by ʻAli Riza (son of Abu al-Hasan Yazdi), who was invited to Fathʻali Shah's court along with Shaykh Ahmad Ahsayi and wrote this book in August/September 1816 on women's hygiene.