Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari

Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari
بی بی مریم بختیاری
سَردار بی بی مریم بختیاری
Born1874
Died1937(1937-00-00) (aged 62–63)
Isfahan, Iran
NationalityIranian Lur
Known forFemale Iranian Constitutional Revolutionary

Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari (1874–1937) (Luri: بی مَریَمِ بَختیاری Bi Maryam Baxtiâri, Persian: بی بی مریم بختیاری) was the daughter of Hossein Gholi Khan Bakhtiari, the sister of Ali-Qoli Khan Bakhtiari and an Iranian Lor Bakhtiari revolutionary and activist of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. As a military commander, she played a distinguished role when Bakhtiari 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 (3x4 m2) pertaining to the conquest of Tehran by the Bakhtiari Constitutional Revolutionaries in July 1909.
  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: [1]
  2. ^ Aujan, Abolfath, 1966. 'The history of Bakhtiaries'. Tamti Publication, Tehran, 272 pages.