Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh

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1883 – 1936

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Who was Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh?

Zahra Khanoum Tadj es-Saltaneh or Tāj al-Salṭanah was a Persian princess and memoirist of the Qajar Dynasty, a daughter of Nasser al-Din Shah by his wife Turan es-Saltaneh. She was one of the defenders of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and a prominent member of the Anjoman Horriyyat Nsevan.

Her memoirs were published under the title of Crowning Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity 1884-1914, edited with a preface by Abbas Amanat and translated by Anna Vanzan and Amin Neshati. They were well received, the Times Literary Supplement describing them thus: In somewhat unusual and cumbersome style, Taj's memoirs, written in 1914, cover a thirty-year span of a rapidly changing era[...] A curious blend of the reconstructive and reflective, Taj al Saltaneh's memoirs bring home the intense conflicts of a life straddling the harem and modernism.

She was buried in the Zahir od-Dowleh Cemetery in Tajrish.

Prominent descendants are Farnaz Fassihi and Honey Deihimi.

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Born
1883
Died
Jan 25, 1936

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on July 23, 2013

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