Hamid Dabashi employs the qualifier “militant” nine times to refer to Ṭáhirih and her companions.

...in the span of twenty-seven pages, Hamid Dabashi employs the qualifier “militant” nine times to refer to Ṭáhirih and her companions. Hamid Dabashi, Shi’ism: A Religion of Protest (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011), 170–97.

(The Bab and the Babi Community of Iran, edited by Fereydun Vahman)