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An American Educator in Iran: The Life and Times of Samuel Martin Jordan

H. E. Chehabi

Series: Bibliotheca Iranica: Americans in Iran/Persia Collection 7
Availability: Forthcoming
Published: 2026
Page #: xii + 220
Size: 6 X 9
ISBN: 978-1-56859-428-6
plates, index, notes, references

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H. E. Chehabi

Introduction
H. E. Chehabi
I-Writings of Samuel M. Jordan

The Power Plant in Persia (1929)

Address of President Jordan at the laying of the cornerstone of Moore Science Hall (1931)

Letter to his Friends (1934)

Constructive Revolutions in Iran (1935)

The Only Christian College in Iran (1935)

Startling Changes in Iran (1936)

Interview with The Lafayette (n.d.)

II-Writings about Samuel M. Jordan

Climbing to the Top of Persia (1930)

“Mr. Chips” of Teheran”
William N. Wysham

Lafayette in Persia

Excerpt from By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne
E. Alexander Powell

Excerpt from Around the World on a Bicycle
Fred A. Birchmore

Alborz College of Teheran and Dr. Samuel Martin Jordan: Founder and President
Arthur C. Boyce

Dr. Jordan of Tehran: American, Christian, Teacher
Michael Zirinisky

Alborz College of Tehran, Dr. Samuel Martin Jordan and the American Faculty: Twentieth-Century Presbyterian Mission Education and Modernism in Iran
Thomas M. Ricks

III-Reminiscences of Iranians

Jordan’s Way
Shokrollah Naser

Sam Jordan and the Evangelical Ethic in Iran
Yahya Armajani

“I want to study, but I have no money”: Memories of the College, later Alborz High School
Ahmad Dashti (Akbarzadeh)

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