1st Edition

Dr. Susan I. Moody's Travels to Iran, 1909-1934 Courageous Odyssey

By Hoda Mahmoudi Copyright 2024
188 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume examines the life of the remarkable woman, Susan Moody, and her travels to Iran in the early 20 th century during seismic changes in the world. Dr. Susan I. Moody’s Travels to Iran 1909-1934: Courageous Odyssey captures a fleeting moment of arresting change and shimmering possibility. Exploring the fading values of the 19 th century and the emergent understandings of the 20 th... Read more

1. A Woman of her Time  2. A Woman of Faith  3. Educator, Artist, Physician  4. A New Believer  5. A New Faith  6. In the Presence of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá  7. The Road to Persia   8. At Home in Tehran  9. A School for Girls  10. Murder in Tehran  11. Strong of Heart  12. A Final Season

Biography

Professor Hoda Mahmoudi holds The Bahá’í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park. Before joining the University faculty, she served as the coordinator of the Research Department at the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa, Israel. Prior to that, she was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern Illinois University, where she was also a faculty member in the Department of Sociology. Professor Mahmoudi has numerous publications, including co-editing Systemic Racism in America: Sociological Theory, Education Inequality, and Social Change (Routledge, 2022), co-editing Women and Inequality in a Changing World: Exploring New Paradigms for Peace (Routledge, 2024).