The Dar al-Tabligh was a Shiite seminary in
Qom. It was established in the mid-1960s by eminent grand
ayatollah
Ayatollah ( ; fa, آیتالله, āyatollāh) is an Title of honor, honorific title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy in Iran and Iraq that came into widespread usage in the 20th century.
Etymology
The title is originally derived from ...
Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari ( fa, محمد کاظم شریعتمداری), also spelled Shariat-Madari (5 January 1906 – 3 April 1986), was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He favoured the traditional Shiite practice of keeping clerics away ...
and soon emerged as one of the most popular
hawza
A hawza ( ar, حوزة) or ḥawzah ʿilmīyah ( ar, حوزة علمیة) is a seminary where Shi'a Muslim scholars are educated.
The word ''ḥawzah'' is found in Arabic as well as the Persian language. In Arabic, the word means "to hold so ...
for
Iranian
Iranian may refer to:
* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
and foreign students, with a prolific publishing outlet.
[Michael M. J. Fischer, ''Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution'', Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, p.84ff.]
In 1973, Dar al-Tabligh opened a women's section, called
Dar al-Zahra, which by 1975 counted 150 female students, taught by male teachers from behind a curtain.
With the fall-out between
Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari
Sayyid Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari ( fa, محمد کاظم شریعتمداری), also spelled Shariat-Madari (5 January 1906 – 3 April 1986), was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He favoured the traditional Shiite practice of keeping clerics away ...
and Khomeini, the seminary was closed and Shariatmadari was placed under house arrest.
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Education in Iran