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The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Grassroots
Democracy, Social Democracy, & the Origins of Feminism
By Janet Afary
Edition: illustrated
Published by Columbia University Press, 1996
ISBN 0231103506, 9780231103503
448 pages
On page 419 of the index, second/right hand column on the bottom,
Sadiqah Dawlatabadi is listed under the index heading for _AZALI
BABIS_
On page 341 of chapter 12, we read,
...we also need to question the direction that the work of historians,
as well as public discourse, took with regard to the Constitutional
Revolution in subsequent decades....When the names of
constitutionalist activists could not be removed, their ideological
affiliations were often covered up. Iranian students never learned
that a number of leading constitutionalists had Azali Babi [i.e.
Bayani, WA] sympathies, among them the two principal orators of the
revolution, Malik al-Mutikalimin and Sayyid Jamal al-Din Va'iz
Isfahani, the founder of Sur-i-Israfil, Mirza Jahangir Khan Shirazi,
and ___the activist brother and sister Yahya and Sadiqah
Dawlatabadi...___
On page 45 of chapter 2, we read,
Yahya Dawlatabadi (1861-1839) was the son of Hadi Dawlatabadi, ___the
spiritual head of the Azali Babis in Iran___. Publicly Yahya was known
as a lay educator, ____although he also assumed the leadership of the
Azali Babi community after his father [note: this last point is
universally denied by the Bayani community as being the case, WA]___.
A poet and committed intellectual with extensive political
connections, Yahya Dawlatabadi documented the early stages of the
reform movement in Tehran as well as his involvement with elite
members of the court and with other reformers in the Ma'arif Anjuman.
Dawlatabadi founded three modern schools in Tehran between 1898 and
1899, the Sadat, the Adab, and the Kamaliyah Elementary Schools. Sadat
was in many ways the most innovative school, since it educated
impoverished boys who, until this time, wrapped green shawls around
their bodies, called themselves sayyids (descendents of the prophet
Muhammad), and went begging on the streets of Tehran. Dawlatabadi did
not admit his Azali Babi affiliations in these memoirs, but described
the persecution of the Babis in Yazd and Isfahan and the harrassment
endured by his family and many others in Isfahan [Yahya Dawlatabadi,
Hayat-i-Yahya, Tehran, 1952, volume 1 of 3, p. 246-247.]
Dawlatabadi account makes it clear that his Azali Babi
connections, or, for that matter, the ideological affiliations of
other religious dissidents, were often known to the ruling elite and
to other members of the 'ulama...Dawlatabadi's Azali Babi ties became
a public issue only when financial or political gains could be gained
by exposing them [by his political enemies]. His enemies, such as the
reformer Sadiq Tabatabai, son of Sayyid Muhammad Tabatabai [a well
known British agent, WA], then tried to blackmail him and incite
public hysteria against him and his schools by labelling him a Babi
and hence unfit to run a school for young Muslim boys....
The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Grassroots
Democracy, Social Democracy, & the Origins of Feminism
By Janet Afary
Edition: illustrated
Published by Columbia University Press, 1996
ISBN 0231103506, 9780231103503
448 pages
On page 419 of the index, second/right hand column on the bottom,
Sadiqah Dawlatabadi is listed under the index heading for _AZALI
BABIS_
On page 341 of chapter 12, we read,
...we also need to question the direction that the work of historians,
as well as public discourse, took with regard to the Constitutional
Revolution in subsequent decades....When the names of
constitutionalist activists could not be removed, their ideological
affiliations were often covered up. Iranian students never learned
that a number of leading constitutionalists had Azali Babi [i.e.
Bayani, WA] sympathies, among them the two principal orators of the
revolution, Malik al-Mutikalimin and Sayyid Jamal al-Din Va'iz
Isfahani, the founder of Sur-i-Israfil, Mirza Jahangir Khan Shirazi,
and ___the activist brother and sister Yahya and Sadiqah
Dawlatabadi...___
On page 45 of chapter 2, we read,
Yahya Dawlatabadi (1861-1839) was the son of Hadi Dawlatabadi, ___the
spiritual head of the Azali Babis in Iran___. Publicly Yahya was known
as a lay educator, ____although he also assumed the leadership of the
Azali Babi community after his father [note: this last point is
universally denied by the Bayani community as being the case, WA]___.
A poet and committed intellectual with extensive political
connections, Yahya Dawlatabadi documented the early stages of the
reform movement in Tehran as well as his involvement with elite
members of the court and with other reformers in the Ma'arif Anjuman.
Dawlatabadi founded three modern schools in Tehran between 1898 and
1899, the Sadat, the Adab, and the Kamaliyah Elementary Schools. Sadat
was in many ways the most innovative school, since it educated
impoverished boys who, until this time, wrapped green shawls around
their bodies, called themselves sayyids (descendents of the prophet
Muhammad), and went begging on the streets of Tehran. Dawlatabadi did
not admit his Azali Babi affiliations in these memoirs, but described
the persecution of the Babis in Yazd and Isfahan and the harrassment
endured by his family and many others in Isfahan [Yahya Dawlatabadi,
Hayat-i-Yahya, Tehran, 1952, volume 1 of 3, p. 246-247.]
Dawlatabadi account makes it clear that his Azali Babi
connections, or, for that matter, the ideological affiliations of
other religious dissidents, were often known to the ruling elite and
to other members of the 'ulama...Dawlatabadi's Azali Babi ties became
a public issue only when financial or political gains could be gained
by exposing them [by his political enemies]. His enemies, such as the
reformer Sadiq Tabatabai, son of Sayyid Muhammad Tabatabai [a well
known British agent, WA], then tried to blackmail him and incite
public hysteria against him and his schools by labelling him a Babi
and hence unfit to run a school for young Muslim boys....