T膧J-al-SAL峁珹NA (b. 5 or 6 Rabi士 II 1301/ 3 or 4 February 1884 in Tehran; d. probably 1936 in Tehran), one of the daughters of N膩峁r-al-Din Shah (r. 1848-96) and the author of memoirs (岣的乼er膩t) which have raised much controversy since their first partial publication in 1969 (FIGURE 1).
The Memoirs. T膩j-al-Sal峁璦na is one of the best known daughters of the Qajar king, largely because of what we have come to learn about her life through her 岣茨佱弓er膩t. The controversy about their authenticity defines the ways in which we could (or could not) use the memoirs as a source about the princess' life.
my teacher, If women in this country were as free as other countries and had their rights upside down, they could enter and advance in state and political affairs, for sure. I did not know the way to progress in becoming a minister and trampling on the rights of the people and eating the property of Muslims and selling my dear homeland and I chose the right path with a strong plan for my progress, never with the people of the house and the park, furniture And I didn't buy a car, I got it with effort and service, Isn't my dear teacher a free thinker? You must say yes So read the accuracy of these words and phrases that I write and then say if there is a problem. . .
I read this in a course dedicated to Persian autobiographies. It is a fascinating text. Taj al-Saltanah appropriates texts and ideas from the European Enlightenment to make a feminist argument for gender equality and the heterosexual sharing of communal space.