A Comparative Study of the By Mirza Hassan Roshdieh and Ismail Gaspirali

In the late years of Nasser Al-Din Shah's reign Mirza Hassan established a school with a new style in Yerevan and three years later in Tabriz Known as Roshdieh. In this school, education was based on the new approaches following phonetic principles New schools spread rapidly across Iran and replaced traditional Maktabs gradually Simultaneously a reform movement appeared in Russian Muslim regions later known as Jadidism One of the principles of this movement was the educational reform in Moslem schools. Ismail Gaspirali Established the first school of this kind in Crimea in 1884. The new schools spread in other Muslim areas in Russia and replaced the traditional Maktabs. The present article tries to compare and contrast the educational reforms carried out by Mirza Hassan Roshdieh in Iran and Ismail Gaspirali in Russia.