Iftikhār al-Tujjar
Iranian female jurisprudent and theologian
Intro | Iranian female jurisprudent and theologian | |
Places | Iran | |
was | Theologian | |
Work field | Religion | |
Gender |
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Religion: | Islam | |
Birth | 1912 | |
Death | 1977 (aged 65 years) |
Iffat al-Zamān Amīn (1912 - 1977), also known as Iftikhār al-Tujjar, was a student and niece of Banu Amin, Iran's most prominent female religious scholar of the 20th century.
Iffat al-Zamān Amīn received an ijazah of riwāya in Najaf from Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, who served as the Head of Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran 1999-2009.
Among her works is "chehel hadith-e amin" (forty hadith of Amin), also known as "hashtsad wa bist mou'ezeh".
Iffat al-Zamān Amīn's father was Aḥmad Amīn, the brother of Nusrat Amin's husband and cousin, Haj Mirza, also known as Muīn al-Tujjar, (d. 1950s). She also had a great grand aunt who was a mujtaheda, Hāshimīyah al-Tujjar.