Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari

Bibi Mayam Bakhtiari
Born 1874
Died 1937
Isfahan, Iran
Nationality Iranian Lurish
Known for Female Iranian Constitutional Revolutionary

Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari (1874–1937) (Lurish: بی مَریَمِ بَختیاری Bi Maryam Baxtiâri, Persian: بی بی مریم بختیاری) was the daughter of Hossein Gholi Khan, the sister of Ali-Qoli Khan Bakhtiari and an Iranian Lurish revolutionary and activist of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. As a military commander, she played a distinguished role when Bakhtiari tribal forces with help of modern arms from German Empire successfully captured Tehran in 1909 as part of the revolutionary campaign to force the central government to establish democratic reforms.[1][2]

Commemorative poster (3 x 4 m2) pertaining to the conquest of Tehran by the Bakhtiari Constitutional Revolutionaries in July 1909.

Life

Bibi Maryam was an educated and enlightened Iranian women in the twentieth century. She was one of the foremost women's rights activists and pioneers of freedom movements in the constitutional movement. Because of her nomadic life, Bibi Maryam was skilled in shooting techniques and craftsmanship.

The role in the Constitutional Revolution

Bibi Maryam was one of the main proponents of Sardar Asad Bakhtiari, to conquer Tehran. Through several letters and telegraphs, and her exciting and effective lectures, she prepared tribal forces to fighting against the Minor tyranny (Mohammad Ali Shah tyranny). Before the liberation of Tehran by the Constitutionalist forces in 1909, she moved to Tehran accompanied with some Bakhtiary skilled warriors and stayed in her father's house for guerrilla planning. When Sardar Asa'd's forces reached Tehran, she and her husband's warriors joined the constitutionalist forces against the Mohammad Ali Shah's troops. She personally took the gun and fought against the cossacks alongside the Lurish warriors.[3] Due to her bravity in the fight and the technical skills in disarming the ruling troops, her populaity increased so that she was given the honorary rank of sardar (high commander), and then she became famous as Sardar Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Oehler, J. 'Bibi Maryam: A Bakhtiari tribal woman', in Edmond, B and N. Yaghoubian (ed) Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East. University of California Press, 2006. ISBN 9780520246614, 426 Pages (Pages 103-115), available online at:
  2. ↑ Aujan, Abolfath, 1966. 'The history of Bakhtiaries'. Tamti Publication, Tehran, 272 pages.
  3. ↑ Aujan, Abolfath, 1966. 'The history of Bakhtiaries'. Tamti Publication, Tehran, 272 pages.
  4. ↑ Sahimi, M. (2010). Iranian Women and the Struggle for Democracy I (Los Angeles: PBS). available online at:
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