The woman who was born in Qazvin in 1817 has come to be known by many names. She was given the name Fatimah Zarrin Taj Qurratul- Ayn ( Solace of the eyes) used by Seyyid Kazim Rashti, the leader of Shaykhi School and by the title Tahirih (pure) given to her by Mirza Husayn- Ali Nuri Bahaullah, a leader of the Bahai faith. She died a martyr for her

The woman who was born in Qazvin in 1817 has come to be known by many names. She was given the name Fatimah Zarrin Taj Qurratul- Ayn ( Solace of the eyes) used by Seyyid Kazim Rashti, the leader of Shaykhi School and by the title Tahirih (pure) given to her by Mirza Husayn- Ali Nuri Bahaullah, a leader of the Bahai faith. She died a martyr for her cause in 1852, strangled to death at night in garden in Tehran by a drunken soldier carrying out his orders, her body thrown in a dry well and covered over with stone. She was first and foremost a woman of action. Her words alone were they not limned against the dramatic deeds of her short and stormy life, would given ample evidence of her revolutionary and pioneering character. But it is the resonance of her deeds and her words that brings into focus the heroic figure of Tahirih.

Ali Akbar Khan Shahnazi was born in 1897 in the city of Tehran with a 100 years of musical family Mirza Hossein Goli and Mirza Abdollah. His extraordinary talent reached to the level which allowed him to teach his father's students at the age of twelve. At age fourteen, he recorded two gramaphone disks by playing some of the most famous Persian

Ali Akbar Khan Shahnazi was born in 1897 in the city of Tehran with a 100 years of musical family Mirza Hossein Goli and Mirza Abdollah. His extraordinary talent reached to the level which allowed him to teach his father's students at the age of twelve. At age fourteen, he recorded two gramaphone disks by playing some of the most famous Persian melodies, such as Avaz-e- Afshari and Avaz-e-Bayate Tork with the great vocalist, Henabe Damavandi. At age fifteen after his father's death, Mirza Hossein Gholi, he became officially responsible for his father's students. Not only he carried the family title of Khandan-e Honar ( The art dynasty), but with the establishment of the Shahnazi Music School, he preserved and elaborated the Radif Of Persian Music, which was later named, Radif- for advanced students. He passed away in 1985 at age 88, May he rest in peace.