Career
She also granted numerous ijazahs of ijtihad to female and male scholars, among them Sayyid March"ashi Najafi. She wrote several books about Islamic sciences, among them a tafsir in 15 volumes, and established a maktab in Isfahan in 1965, called Maktab-e Fatimah. The maktab was directed since its inception until 1992 by Banu Amin"s most prominent student, Zīnah al-Sādāt Humāyūnī (b 1917).
After 1992, Ḥajj Āqā Ḥasan Imāmi, a relative of Humāyūnī’s, took over the directorship.
Banu Amin was born into a merchant family. Her father is known by the name of Haj Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Amīn al-Tujjar.
Further, Nuṣrat Amīn had a niece, Iffat al-Zamān Amīn (1912-1977), also known as Iftikhār al-Tujjar, who was one of her most prominent students and who received an ijazah of riwāya in Najaf by Ayatullah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. Banu Amin had eight children, only one of whom survived her (Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Muʿīn Amīn).
She was buried at the Takht-e Fulad Cemetery in Isfahan.
Her age at death, at 96/97 years of age is considerably longer than the life expectancy of Iran which was 61.27 at the time of her death in 1983. ʻAmū Khalīlī, Marjān. Kawkab-i durrī:, (Tehran: Payām-e ʻAdālat, 1379 ).
Bāqirī Bīdʾhindī, Nāṣir.
Bānū-yi nimūnah: gilwahāyī az ḥayāt-i bānū-yi mujtahidah Amīn Iṣfahānī, (Daftar-i Tablīqat-i Islāmī-yi Ḥawzah-yi ʿilmīyah-yi - Islamic Propagation Office of the Religious Seminaries Qom), Markaz-i Intishārāt, Qom 1382. Tayyibī, Nāhīdaughter Zindagānī-yi Bānū-yi Īrānī: Bānū-yi Mujtahidah Nuṣrat al-Sādāt Amīn, (Qom: Sābiqūn Publishers, 1380 ).
Majmūʻah-ʾi maqālāt wa sukhanrānīhā-yi avvalīn wa duvumīn Kungrih-ʾi Buzurgdāsht-i Bānū-yi Mujtahidah Sayyidah Nuṣrat Amīn (rah), Markaz-i Muṭālaʻāt wa Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī, Daftar-i Muṭālaʻāt-i Farhangī-i Bānūwān, Qom, 1995 (1374). Yādnāmah-i bānū-yi mujtahidah Nuṣrat al-Sādāt Amīn: mashhūr bih Bānū-yi Īrāni, (Isfahan: Vizārat-i Farhang wa Irshād-i Islāmī.
Markaz-i Muṭālaʿāt-i wa Tahqīqāt-i Farhangī, 1371 ).
