Modern Education in Iran during the Qajar and Pahlavi Periods

Koyagi, Mikiya

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“… 1 For the rise of modern science in the first half of the twentieth century, see Schayegh 2009. For educational reform in the Qajar and Pahlavi periods, see Ringer 2001; and Koyagi 2009. Arjomand (1997) discusses some aspects of the early reception of modern astronomy.…”

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Empirical Spirits: Islam, Spiritism, and the Virtues of Science in Iran

Doostdar

2016

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Iranians today largely take the legitimacy and prestige of the modern empirical sciences for granted. This prestige is a historical achievement, the effect of decades, if not centuries, of human effort. Its history is not one of linear intellectual progress, a cumulative triumph of reason over superstition or truth over error. Instead, it is a story of convergences and divergences among many different kinds of practice over a long stretch of time and in the face of myriad forms of resistance and contestation. These practices have included small-scale acts of discourse-translation and instruction, oral and textual disputation, learned exchange and popular entertainment-but also large-scale biopolitical projects involving hygiene, eugenics, psychiatry, pedagogy, and so on. They have been implicated in the rise of new classes of professionals such as scientists, engineers, technicians, bureaucrats, and educators, and in the building of new institutions and the undermining of old ones. No less important is that these practices have been deeply entangled with the state's powers of legislation, disciplining, and coercion.

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Creating the Modern Iranian Woman

Hendelman-Baavur

2019

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On May 13, 1957, a flashy event was held at Tehran's Moulin Rouge Cinema to celebrate the debut of the weekly magazine Ettela'at-e Banuvan, which began publication seven weeks earlier. In the presence of 1,100 of the magazine's readers the keynote speaker and proprietor, Abbas Mas'udi, emphasized: "This publication is meant to fill a dearth in our country's press, and it is necessary for Iranian women to have a special magazine of their own. It will allow them to discuss issues pertaining to their lives and express their thoughts, opinions and aspirations." 1 In his inaugural speech, Mas'udi linked the new venture of Ettela'at Publishing Group with the broader history of the Iranian press and women's awakening, while conveying the impression that Ettela'at-e Banuvan was the first journal aimed at women in Iran. Yet, pioneer women's periodicals had already been introduced in Iran in the 1910s. 2 According to some estimates, at least 10 other women's journals were published in Iran between 1953 and 1967, simultaneously with Ettela'at-e Banuvan. 3 Why would a prominent politician and leading media tycoon, who was more familiar with the local newspaper market than many of his contemporaries, refer to a dearth in the Iranian press?Seeking an answer to this straightforward question, this chapter explores Iranian women's entry into journalism at the turn of the century. Women's press emerged in the early twentieth century, at approximately the same time that new perceptions about the nature and function of the press, anti-imperialist nationalism, and the idea of 1 Ettela'at-e Banuvan, 8, May 20, 1957. 2 For purposes of convenience, throughout the book, the term "periodical journals" (or "periodicals" for short) is used when referring to publications for and by Iranian women published during the first half of the twentieth century, and the term "magazines" for those published in the second half of the century. 3 Vatandoust, "The Status of Iranian Women during the Pahlavi Regime," 111.

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Modern Education in Iran during the Qajar and Pahlavi Periods

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