Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

Gawhar Khanum, daughter of Tayghun Khanum (Fath‘ali Shah's daughter) and Musa Khan Qajar Quvanlu, was a poet and a scholar

Gawhar Khanum created a book of poems, named Gawhariyah, consisting of six thousand verses, which was lithographed in 1901 or 1902 by Ahmad Khan Fatih al-Mulk and in the handwriting of Muhammad Isma‘il from Khvansar. She was a contemporary of Qa’ani and a follower of the Iraqi style. Gawhar Khanum also was knowledgable in astronomy. Close

هومن فرّهی، «گوهر خانم»، دايرة المعارف زن ایرانی، به سرپرستی مصطفی اجتهادی، جلد دوم، مرکز امور مشارکت زنان ریاست جمهوری، چاپ اول، ۱۳۸۲، ص ۷۹۳ Close