Title
Rahil Haddad's Teaching Certificate (1886)
Subject
women, education, Ottoman Syria, American missionaries, 19th century, Rahil Haddad
Description
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.
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 Antiochian Patriarch Gregorius IV and Leila Haddad Badr, the wife of Yusuf Badr (the first Arab pastor of the National Evangelical Church of Beirut).
Date
c. 1887
Rights
Rahil Haddad Teaching Certificate (1886) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Format
Ink on paper; 37.5cm x 49cm
Language
Arabic
Original Format
paper certificate