Lady Amin, or Hajiyeh Seyyedeh Nosrat Begum Amin, was born in 1886 in Isfahan, Iran into a merchant family. Despite the family background, a number of her family members were religious scholars, including her cousin, her father, her aunt, and her niece, who would go on to be one of her most prominent students. Lady Amin herself is considered to be the most prominent female religious scholar in Iran in the 20th century. In addition to her scholarly work, she was an Islamic jurisprudent, theologian, and mystic. During her lifetime, she received a number of different ijazahs, a license that authorizes the holder to transmit a certain text or subject rehearsing Islamic religious knowledge. In addition to the number of ijazahs she was granted, she herself granted a number of ijazahs to prominent female and male scholars across Iran. Lady Amin also wrote several books about Islamic sciences, including a 15 volume tafsir, or explanation of Gods word, and established an maktab in her home town, an elementary school dedicated to Islamic studies, that is still in operation to this day. She had eight children, only one of whom survived her when she passed away in 1983 at the age of 96 in her hometown, Isfahan, Iran. She was laid to rest in a tomb at the Takht-e Fulad cemetery.