Parvīn Iᶜtiṣāmī has remained a luminous star in the firmament of Persian poetry as she praised herself in her epitaph: ‘Parvīn, resting in black dust,/ is the star in the firmament of literature’. The combination of her prowess in exploiting the classical style of Persian poetry and her gender brought her both admiration and abomination. When Parvīn entered the patriarchal literary tradition of Persian poetry with the publication of her poems, she was praised, but as a rarity. Because of being a female poet, she was patronised, ostracised, disbelieved and accused of literary fraud. Although Parvīn wrote a short poem and asserted that she was ‘not a man’, her femininity remained a controversial issue. Parvīn and her poetry continued to be perceived as ‘miraculous’ in the patriarchal Muslim-Iranian culture. In his discussion of Parvīn's position in Persian poetry, the prominent literary critic, Shafīᶜī-Kadkanī (1939-present) asserts that no contemporary or classical poet after Ḥāfiẓ (d. 1390) has achieved Parvīn's popularity, which he characterises as ‘Parvīn's miracle’. In his argument, Shafīᶜī-Kadkanī introduces Parvīn's miracle as her eternal art that refutes all the accusations brought against her poetry for decades. Shafīᶜī-Kadkanī's words are among the many examples that refer to Parvīn's immense and enduring popularity as a mystery or a miracle. In his own words, Shafīᶜī-Kadkanī is one among the hundreds of thousands of Parvīn's ‘enchanted’ readers.