Mastoureh Ardalan

She was born in Sanandaj in 1805 into the Qadiri family of court officials and was taught Kurdish, Arabic and Persian under her father's supervision, studying history and poetry. She married Khasraw Khan Ardalan, the wali of the Ardalan principality; after his death and the Qajar takeover of the principality she was exiled with her family to Sulaymaniyah in the Baban principality, where the English and Persian articles place her death — on 30 Azar 1226 SH (21 December 1847) by the Persian article's dating, in the year 1848 by the English article's. ¹²

Her Chronicle of the House of Ardalan is a dynastic history of the Ardalan rulers. Her Divan preserves some 2,000 verses of the 20,000 she is said to have written, and her Aqa'id (the Shar'iyyat) is a treatise on belief and religious law. A 4.5-metre statue of her stands in Sanandaj. ¹

The Persian article describes her own creed treatise as written in the Sunni Shafi'i school, while a peer-reviewed Iranian literary study calls her a Shiite poet whose verse mourns Imam Husayn and praises the Imams; Wikidata's only religion value for her is the generic Islam. Because the independent traditions conflict and neither reading is corroborated, her affiliation is recorded as unknown, with both readings preserved in her record. ²³

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