Women During the Qajar Period in Iran

Some also had private libraries and female scribes, as seals and inscriptions on surviving manuscripts attest. Among the most important writings by women of this period are Maʿāyeb al-rejāl by an author identified on the manuscript as Bībī Ḵānom Estarābādī (b. 1274/1858) and Ḵāṭerāt by Tāj-al-Salṭana (b. 1301/1883).