This paper examines how their knowledge, agency, and martyr-like status have been memorialized and politicized within their traditions. Using a historical and comparative methodology, it will analyze primary sources—hadiths, sermons, poetry, and historical accounts—alongside secondary scholarship to explore their intellectual authority, modes of resistance, and how subsequent religious movements have mobilized their legacies.
By juxtaposing Fatima Zahra and Tahirih Baraghani, this study highlights the intersection of gender, power, and religious authority, questioning how memory and historiography shape contemporary understandings of female scholarship and activism in Islam and the Bahá’í Faith. This research contributes to broader discourses on women’s authority in religious traditions and the politics of historical remembrance.