Set in the world of the Qajar monarchs, mayors, ministers, and mullahs, this book explores the dangerous and at the same time luminous legacy left by a remarkable person. Was she herself guilty of the crimes she was foretelling? As her warnings and predictions became prophecies fulfilled, about the assassination of the Shah, the hanging of the Mayor, and the murder of the Grand Vazir, many wondered whether she was not only reading history but writing it as well. But most alarming to the Shah and the court was how the poetess could read. Everyone spoke of her beauty, and her dazzling intelligence. Others echoed her words, and passed her poems from hand to hand. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her uncle. Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin.
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