Rejoice in My Gladness

The Life of Tahirih

Rejoice in My Gladness is a biography of one of the leading female voices, Tahirih, of the 1800s. The book tells how she began teaching the equality between men and women in largely Muslim Persia, and how she was eventually martyred for her outspokenness and courage in the face of the male governing establishment in Persia.

Rejoice in My Gladness follows the life of Tahirih from her birth through her adulthood, covering important events such as her marriage, her controversial conversion to the Bahá'íFaith, and her execution due to her beliefs and activities.

The reader will see how Tahirih changed the face of women's rights forever, as she was the first woman in recorded Middle Eastern history to remove her veil before an assembly of men. At her execution, her last words have been recorded as, "You can kill me as soon as you like, but you will never stop...Show More

Rejoice in My Gladness is a biography of one of the leading female voices, Tahirih, of the 1800s. The book tells how she began teaching the equality between men and women in largely Muslim Persia, and how she was eventually martyred for her outspokenness and courage in the face of the male governing establishment in Persia.

Rejoice in My Gladness follows the life of Tahirih from her birth through her adulthood, covering important events such as her marriage, her controversial conversion to the Bahá'íFaith, and her execution due to her beliefs and activities.

The reader will see how Tahirih changed the face of women's rights forever, as she was the first woman in recorded Middle Eastern history to remove her veil before an assembly of men. At her execution, her last words have been recorded as, "You can kill me as soon as you like, but you will never stop the emancipation of women."

  • Contributors:: Janet Ruhe-Schoen (Author)
  • Format: Softcover book | 383 pages
  • Dimensions: 150 x 230 x 15 mm | 550 g
  • Publisher: Baha'i Publishing (USA), 2011
  • ISBN: 9781931847841
  • SKU: RUHE_REJOI
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  • Contributors:: Janet Ruhe-Schoen (Author)
  • Format: Softcover book | 383 pages
  • Dimensions: 150 x 230 x 15 mm | 550 g
  • Publisher: Baha'i Publishing (USA), 2011
  • ISBN: 9781931847841
  • SKU: RUHE_REJOI

About Janet Ruhe-Schoen

Janet Ruhe-Schoen has written four books of Bahá'í biography. A Love Which Does Not Wait, focusing on nine pioneer Bahá'í teachers lauded in a 1954 eulogy that linked them in greatness of purpose and service, was the first. Now in its third edition in Australia, it's also been published in Portuguese and Spanish and is slated to appear in German.

She's also the author of The Nightingale, Bahá'u'lláh; Rejoice In My Gladness: The Life of Táhirih; Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His Shining Circle. Another biographical effort is a monograph, An Enchantment of the Heart: A Portrait of Marcia Steward.

Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1950, she's lived in Peru and Chile as well as on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. She's worked as a journalist in Santiago de Chile and in New York State, and is also a poet and visual artist. She now lives in Arizona.

Titles by Janet Ruhe-Schoen

Early Believers

Equality of Women & Men