This book only offered an overview of who she was according to Babi traditions. The author did not give enough information from other historians and the research was lacking but overall I liked reading about that time in Iraqi/Iranian history. 鈥庂傌必� 丕賱毓賷賳 Believed she was oppressed by her husband and hated him because she thought she was more intelligent and gifted than he was. but I have to ask the question if she was so oppressed how did she manage to abandon her family and kids to study and lecture in Karbala and in the Kadhim for so many years and have such a large following?its not like anyone at that time could protect her from her own family. If her family really oppressed her they would not have gone to all that trouble to get her out of prison, nor would they have let her preach her new religion鈥n the end I believe that she was a troubled women going through some kind of identity crisis fueled by her extensive religious background , she found an output in a new religion/revolution to vent her frustrations.
I agree with wardi, when he says she was not of her time, if she was around in this century certain groups would be worshipping her as an idol which I think she wouldn't mind so much judging by her character.