QURRAT AL-ʿAYN ṬᾹHIRAH (c. 1818–1852), was a Bābī preacher and poet, and their first woman martyr. Both Qurrat al-ʿAyn ("solace of the eyes") and Ṭāhirah ("the pure") were given as honorifics, and her original name has fallen into oblivion.

The daughter of a prominent Shīʿī mullah in Qazvin, she was married to her first cousin, the son of another important mullah. She was a highly intelligent woman and early studied the works of Shaykh Aḥmad Aḥsāʾī, who spoke of the imminent coming of the Bāb. After corresponding with Aḥsāʾī's disciple, Sayyid Kāẓim-i Rashtī, she took the decisive step of leaving her husband and children in order to join his circle in Karbala; but he died shortly before she performed the pilgrimage there...