Labiba Kurani's Teaching Certificate (1887)
"Quick Study", Labiba Kurani, women, education, Ottoman Syria, American missionaries,19th century
<p>This is a digital copy of the teaching certificate granted to Labiba Kurani by the American Missionaries in 1887.</p>
<p>For more information regarding the history of this certificate and its role as an artifact of Protestant Heritage in the Middle East, please see the "Quick Study" article in the <em>NEST Theological Review (2013) 34:2.</em></p>
c. 1887
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ink on paper; 32.5cm x 49cm
Arabic
Rahil Haddad's Teaching Certificate (1886)
women, education, Ottoman Syria, American missionaries, 19th century, Rahil Haddad
<p>This teaching certificate was given to a woman named Rahil Haddad in 1886. It serves as a comparison to Labiba Kurani's teaching certificate. The subjects that Rahil was certified to teacher included Arabic Conjugation & Syntax, Calculation, Geography, Reading and Writing. These are the most common subjects found in the 55 teaching certificates and they represent the "basic education" taught at Protestant schools.</p>
<p>Little is know about Rahil Haddad, but she maybe the same woman listed as Rahil Mashriq Haddad in a later teaching record. As such she may be related to both <strong><a title="Patriarch Gregorius IV" href="http://orthodoxwiki.org/Gregory_IV_%28Haddad%29_of_Antioch" target="_blank">Antiochian Patriarch Gregorius IV</a></strong> and Leila Haddad Badr, the wife of Yusuf Badr (the first Arab pastor of the <strong><a title="NECB History" href="http://nechurchbeirut.com/index.php/welcom/history-of-the-national-evangelical-church">National Evangelical Church of Beirut</a></strong>).</p>
c. 1887
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Ink on paper; 37.5cm x 49cm
Arabic
List of Schools, Teachers and Diplomas
women, education, Ottoman Syria, American missionaries, 19th century, Labiba Kurani, Henry Harris Jessup, Rahil Haddad
<p>This item is page 58 of a book that lists schools, teachers and certificates for the Protestant community in Ottoman Syria dating from 1888 to 1893. The lists were complied by the American missionary Henry Harris Jessup after letters of inquiry were sent to other members of the American Mission in Ottoman Syria (some of the replies are enclosed in the book). The list can be dated to 1893. Compare this list to the information presented in "Appendix IV" of Henry Harris Jessup <strong><a title="HHJ 53 Years Vol 2" href="https://archive.org/details/fiftythreeyearsi011830mbp" target="_blank">Fifty-Three Years in Syria: Volume I and II. (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1910):</a> </strong>805-808.</p>
<p>On the selected page, person 32 is a woman named "Lebibi Koorani" who was then teaching in Shweifat. This woman received her teaching certificate from the Suk el-Gharb Station on 4 February 1888. Although her name is spelled differently, and some of the details are incorrect, could this woman be Labiba Kurani?</p>
<p>Also note that person 10 is Rahil Haddad, whose teaching certificate is also presented in this exhibition.</p>
[Henry Harris Jessup]
[1893]
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ink on paper; 22cmx34.5cm
English
Teaching Certificate Chart
education, Ottoman Syria, 19th century, American missionaries
<p>This pdf file contains information regarding the 55 teaching certificates, dating from 1865-1887 that are held by the NEST Special Collections. This chart includes the names of those who received a certificate, the name of the missionary who endorsed the certificate, the date of certification, and the subjects certified to teach.</p>
<p>The chart is in English, but includes the Arabic titles of the subjects. It was created by <a title="Christine Lindner" href="https://theonest.academia.edu/ChristineBLindner" target="_blank">Christine B. Lindner</a> on 8 October 2013.</p>
<a title="Christine Lindner" href="https://theonest.academia.edu/ChristineBLindner" target="_blank">Christine B. Lindner</a>
Teaching Certificates held by <a title="NEST Special Collections" href="http://www.theonest.edu.lb/index.php?sid=74" target="_blank">NEST Special Collections</a>
8 October 2013
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PDF file
English, Arabic
Christine B. Lindner, "Piecing Together the Fragmented History of Esther Mushriq Haddad," AMEWS E-Bulletin, 1 (January 2014)
In this article, Christine B. Lindner employs the Teaching Certificate for a woman named Esther Mushriq Haddad, to piece together the history of this woman and in so doing reveals the difficulties in studying the impact of women on the Nahda.
Christine B. Lindner
AMEWS E-Bulletin
Association for Middle East Women's Studies http://amews.org/