IN PERSIAN
The Forgotten Schools
The Bahá'ís and Modern Education in Iran, 1899-1934
By Soli Shahvar; Translated by Hourivash Rahmani
Baran Publishers, Sweden, 2013; 518 pages
The author is the head of the School of Oriental and African Studies at Haifa University, Israel. He has written a number of books about the Bahá'í communities. This book treats the history of the emergence, development and dissolution of the modern schools established in Iran by the Bahá'ís during 1899-1934. The text consists of five chapters, 253 pages. The four appendices, actual pictures, notes, bibliography, and indexes cover the rest of book in 265 pages.