Fatemeh Amini is a female religious leader of Iran, who has directed and opened a number of
women's seminaries in Qom and Tehran.
She was the director of the first women's hawza in Qom, the
Dar al-Zahra Dar al-Zahra was the first women's Shia seminary to be opened in Qom. It was established by grand ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, who opened it in 1973 as a section of his hawza Dar al-Tabligh.
By 1975, Dar al-Zahra already counted 150 fema ...
, which was the women's wing of grand ayatollah
Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari ( fa, محمد کاظم شریعتمداری), also spelled Shariat-Madari (5 January 1906 – 3 April 1986), was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He favoured the traditional Shiite practice of keeping clerics away ...
's hawza
Dar al-Tabligh
The Dar al-Tabligh was a Shiite seminary in Qom. It was established in the mid-1960s by eminent grand ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari and soon emerged as one of the most popular hawza for Iranian and foreign students, with a prolific publis ...
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According to an interview with Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut, Amini also opened the women's madrasas Maktab-e Ali in Qom and Maktab-e Zahra in Yazd before the revolution. Later, she founded the Tehran Seminary Fatemeh Zahra in 1988. Regarding the latter, Amini states that “Our goal is to contribute to women's development by giving impetus to their creativity, thereby also increasing their self-esteem.” The seminary provides religious training for women, and based on a micro-credit system, which grants interest-free loans to poor families and female university students, it financially and morally assists deprived women in order to boost their activities in the public sphere. Amini points out that she received the permission to spend
religious tax (sahm-e imam) of a
marja whom she does not name, but that she declined as she preferred to remain independent. In its place, she set up the micro-finance system.
[Azadeh Kian, Gendering Shiism in Post-revoltuionary Iran, in Roksana Bahramitash and Eric Hooglund (eds.): Gender in Contemporary Iran. Pushing the Boundaries. Routledge 2011, 24-35.]
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Dar al-Zahra Dar al-Zahra was the first women's Shia seminary to be opened in Qom. It was established by grand ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, who opened it in 1973 as a section of his hawza Dar al-Tabligh.
By 1975, Dar al-Zahra already counted 150 fema ...
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Maktab-e Tawhid
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Hawza
A hawza ( ar, حوزة) or ḥawzah ʿilmīyah ( ar, حوزة علمیة) is a seminary where Shi'a Muslim scholars are educated.
The word ''ḥawzah'' is found in Arabic as well as the Persian language. In Arabic, the word means "to hold so ...
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Jamiat al-Zahra
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Education in Iran
Female Islamic religious leaders
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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