Lady Amin

Lady Amin's tomb in Isfahan

Seyyede Nosrat Begum Amin ( listen ^?^/^I ; * 1895 in Isfahan ; † June 13, 1983 ), also as Banu Amin ( listen ^?^/^I ; Persian بانو امين), Known as Lady Amin or Nosrat Amin , was an Iranian mujtahid and theologian. She received numerous Ijāzas (authorizations) of Ijtihād , including from Ayatollah Muhammad Shirazi Kazim Husseini (1873-1947) and Grand Ayatollah Abdul Karim Haeri Yazdi (1859-1937), the founder of the Qom Seminars.

She wrote several books on Islamic sciences, including a tafsir in 15 volumes, and founded a maktab (school) in Isfahan, the Maktab-e Fatimah , in 1965 . From its inception until 1992, the maktab was led by Banu Amin's most prominent student, Zinah al-Sādāt Humāyūnī (* 1917). After 1992 Hajj Hasan Āqā Imami, a relative of the Humāyūnī, took over the reins.

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↑ See ʻAmū Khalīlī, Marjān. Kawkab-i durrī: [sharḥ-i ahvāl-i bānū-ye mujtahidah Amīn] (Tehran: Payām-e ʻAdālat, 1379 [2000]).

personal data
SURNAME	Amin, lady
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Amin, Hajiyeh Seyyedeh Nosrat Begum; Amine, banu; بانو امين (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Iranian lawyer and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Isfahan
DATE OF DEATH	June 13, 1983

[1] See ʻAmū Khalīlī, Marjān. Kawkab-i durrī: [sharḥ-i ahvāl-i bānū-ye mujtahidah Amīn] (Tehran: Payām-e ʻAdālat, 1379 [2000]).