Mohammad Bahmanbeigi

Culture of origin: Qashqai · Cultural

Holiday sources: Qashqai

Mohammad Bahmanbeigi (1920–2010) was born into the Amaleh of the Qashqai while the tribe was on its migration. From 1331 (the early 1950s) he set up schools in tents that moved with the nomads, in a programme that began with the American Point Four aid, and trained young tribesmen as their teachers; 78 tent schools were founded among the tribes, and his tribal teachers' college first admitted girls in 1962 (eleven years later 270 of them had graduated and were teaching). He also wrote of nomad life, in Bokhara-ye man, il-e man (My Bukhara, my tribe) and other books. He died of a lung infection in Shiraz on 11 Ordibehesht 1389 (1 May 2010), at 90.