The Forgotten Schools: The Baha'is and Modern Education in Iran, 1899-1934

London: I.B.Tauris (International Library of Iranian Studies, Volume 1 1) 265 pp. + index, appendices AMIN BANANI Perhaps my repository of memories and recollections can add a dimension to Professor Soli Shahvar's excellent book about the rise, flourishing, and ultimate suppression of modern Bahá'í schools in Iran - for those schools are not forgotten by me! I have vivid memories of the morning of 23 September 1 934 ( 1 Mehr of the Persian solar year 1313), my first day at the Tarbiyat School for Boys in Tehran. The book includes an extensive appendix including several tables comprising a database on the Bahá'í schools and kindergartens, which provides much information in compressed form about each of the educational institutions such as its founding, the number of students, its facilities, staff, curriculum, daily routine, and so on, and a list of prominent nonBahá'í Iranians who studied at the Tarbiyat schools.