A female mystic and poetess from Gujarat Better known as Bibi Tahira, she was the last known member of the Kadiwala family of Ismaili Khoja community in India and a ginan composer. With her first public appearance in 1829, Bibi Tahira organised the gathering of the Ismaili women, in Bombay, to discuss ginans - the devotional couplets of wisdom - and was famous for her piety and learning. Bibi Tahira, born Sayeda Imam Begum in Kera, Kutch of Gujarat, passed away at Karachi.