Lady Amin

Hajiyeh Seyyedeh Nosrat Begum Amin, also known as Banu Amin, Lady Amin (; 1886–1983), was Iran's most outstanding female jurisprudent, theologian and great Muslim mystic (‘arif) of the 20th century, a Lady Mujtahideh. She received numerous ijazahs (permissions) of ijtihad, among them from Ayatollahs Muḥammad Kazim Ḥusayni Shīrāzī (1873-1947) and Grand Ayatullah ‘arif (1859-1937), the founder of the Qom seminaries (hawza).

She also granted numerous ijazahs of ijtihad to female and male scholars, among them Sayyid Mar'ashi Najafi.

She wrote several books about Islamic sciences, among them a tafsir in 15 volumes, and established a maktab in Isfahan in 1965, called Maktab-e Fatimah. The maktab was directed since its inception until 1992 by Banu Amin's most prominent student, Zīnah al-Sādāt Humāyūnī (b. 1917). After 1992, Ḥajj Āqā Ḥasan Imāmi, a relative of Humāyūnī’s, took over the directorship.

Banu Amin was born into a merchant family. Nuṣrat Amīn’s husband was her cousin Haj Mirza, also known as Muīn al-Tujjar. Her father is known by the name of Haj Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Amīn al-Tujjar. His sister Hāshimīyah al-Tujjar was a mujtahidah herself who received ijtihād degrees in fiqh and uṣūl. Further, Nuṣrat Amīn had a niece, Iffat al-Zamān Amīn (1912-1977), also known as Iftikhār al-Tujjar, who was one of her most prominent students and who received an ijazah of riwāya in Najaf by Ayatullah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.

Banu Amin had eight children, only one of whom survived her (Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Muʿīn Amīn). She was buried at the Takht-e Fulad Cemetery in Isfahan.

Works

• al-ArbaÊ¿Ä«n al-HāshimÄ«yyah
• Jā̄miÊ¿ al-shatāt
• Al-Nafaḥāt al-RaḥmānÄ«yah fÄ« al-Vāridāt al-QalbÄ«yah
• Sayr va SulÅ«k dar Ravish-i Awliyāʼ-i Allāh
• Akhlāq va Rahi Sa‘adat: Iqtibas va tarjamih az Taharat al-Iraqi Ibn Maskuyih
• Ravish-i KhushbakhtÄ« va TawsÄ«yih bih Khāharān-i Imani
• Makhzan al-Ê¿irfān dar Ê¿ulÅ«m-i Qurʾān
• Makhzan al-laālÄ« dar fazÄ«lat-i mawlá al-mawālÄ« hazrat-i AlÄ« ibn AbÄ«tālib
• Maʿād, yā ĀkharÄ«n Sayr-i Bashar

Biographies and documentation

• Ê»AmÅ« KhalÄ«lÄ«, Marjān. Kawkab-i durrÄ«: [sharḥ-i ahvāl-i bānÅ«-ye mujtahidah AmÄ«n], (Tehran: Payām-e Ê»Adālat, 1379 [2000]).
• BāqirÄ« BÄ«dʾhindÄ«, Nāṣir. BānÅ«-yi nimÅ«nah: gilwahāyÄ« az ḥayāt-i bānÅ«-yi mujtahidah AmÄ«n Iá¹£fahānÄ«, (Daftar-i TablÄ«qat-i IslāmÄ«-yi Ḥawzah-yi Ê¿ilmÄ«yah-yi - Islamic Propagation Office of the Religious Seminaries Qom), Markaz-i Intishārāt, Qom 1382 [2003].
• TayyibÄ«, NāhÄ«d. ZindagānÄ«-yi BānÅ«-yi ĪrānÄ«: BānÅ«-yi Mujtahidah Nuá¹£rat al-Sādāt AmÄ«n, (Qom: SābiqÅ«n Publishers, 1380 [2001]).
• MajmÅ«Ê»ah-ʾi maqālāt wa sukhanrānÄ«hā-yi avvalÄ«n wa duvumÄ«n Kungrih-ʾi Buzurgdāsht-i BānÅ«-yi Mujtahidah Sayyidah Nuá¹£rat AmÄ«n (rah), Markaz-i Muṭālaʻāt wa TaḥqÄ«qāt-i FarhangÄ«, Daftar-i Muṭālaʻāt-i FarhangÄ«-i BānÅ«wān, Qom, 1995 (1374).
• Yādnāmah-i bānÅ«-yi mujtahidah Nuá¹£rat al-Sādāt AmÄ«n: mashhÅ«r bih BānÅ«-yi Īrāni, (Isfahan: Vizārat-i Farhang wa Irshād-i IslāmÄ«; Markaz-i Muṭālaʿāt-i wa TahqÄ«qāt-i FarhangÄ«, 1371 [1992]).

Further reading

See also

• HāshimÄ«yah al-Tujjar
• Zohreh Sefati
• Iftikhār al-Tujjar
• ZÄ«nah al-Sādāt HumāyÅ«nÄ«

References and notes

External links

• Lady Nusrat Beygum Amin's biography, Al-Islam.org
• The Life of Lady Amin (Nusrat Beygum)