Bibliography: BIB35553

Key	BIB35553
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	The Tarbiyat Girls' School of Tehran : Iranian and American Baha'i Contributions to Modern Education
Journal	Middle East Critique (Abingdon, UK)
Author	Rostam-Kolayi, Jasamin
Year	2013
Date	Spring 2013
Issue	1
Volume	22
ISSN	1943-6149
Abstract	This article, which examines the thirty-year history of the Tarbiyat Girls' School of Tehran from the late Qajar to the Reza Shah period, sheds light on the nature of contact between Iranian and American Baha'is and the changing communal and organizational development of Baha'is in the early twentieth century. Through the efforts of the Persian-American Educational Society (PAES), American Baha'is financed the school and oversaw its operations and teaching staff during a period when girls' schools were first emerging in Iran. As the school grew in size, its diminishing American influence coincided with the rise of Iranian Baha'i institutions and an emerging public identity for Iranian Baha'is that clashed with the dictates of the state's centralizing, secularizing, and nationalizing reforms.
Language	English
Keywords	SCHOOLS; IRAN; TIHRAN; GIRLS; TARBIYAT SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
URL	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2012.755298
DOI	10.1080/19436149.2012.755298
Pages	77–93
Legal note	11.
Access date	2013/04/08