Táhirih (طاهره) means "the pure one" in Persian. **Táhirih Qurratu'l-Ayn (1814-1852)** was the **Persian Babi poet-prophetess and women's rights pioneer** — a brilliant theologian who **publicly removed her veil at the 1848 Conference of Badasht**, declaring the dawn of a new age. **Famously declared at her execution by strangling: "You can kill me as soon as you like, but you cannot stop the emancipation of women."** Considered the first woman suffrage martyr of modern times.
Subject of Bahiyyih Nakhjavani's novel *The Woman Who Read Too Much* (2007).
Táhirih reduces to two — the number of Babi prophetess.