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Persian Women and Their Creed
A Woman Missionary’s Eyewitness Account of Faith, Suffering, and Daily Life in Persia
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Persian Women and Their Creed
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Bert Nichols Stauff
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Mary R. S. Bird
In Persian Women and Their Creed, missionary Mary R. S. Bird offers a vivid eyewitness account of the lives, beliefs, hardships, and daily experiences of women in nineteenth-century Persia. Drawing on years of close contact with Persian women, Bird records religious customs, family life, social restrictions, illness, suffering, and deeply personal conversations about faith.
Because Bird entered homes and women’s spaces largely closed to outsiders, her account preserves observations rarely available to Western readers of her era. She writes not from a distant study but from direct encounter—with women who questioned her, challenged her, trusted her, sought medical help, and spoke openly about their lives and beliefs.
First published in 1899, this historical work offers a revealing portrait of women living within the religious and social structures of Qajar-era Persia. At once a missionary account and a record of women’s history, Persian Women and Their Creed preserves the observations of a remarkable woman whose work brought her into intimate contact with lives too often absent from the historical record.
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“A riveting glimpse into the lives of Persian women at the turn of the twentieth century…A window into the struggles, faith, and resilience of women in a land rich with culture yet bound by tradition.”
