Puri Soltani
Puri Soltani (Persian language, Persian: پوری سلطانی) was an academic who was a "pioneer of Iranian librarianship". Pouri Soltani was born in Hamadan, the daughter of Mehdi Soltani Shirazi and Roqayeh Khanom, on September 22, 1931. Roqayeh Khanom was Mehdi Soltani Shirazi's eldest daughter. A prominent constitutional lawyer, her father was a follower of Rahmat Ali Shah (Sheikh Abdullah Ha’iri) and moved from Shiraz to Tehran to be closer to him before taking his daughter as his wife and having seven children. Puri Soltani obtained a bachelor’s degree in Persian literature from the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tehran and was employed by the Ministry of Culture (current Ministry of Education). Pouri met Morteza Keyvan, a poet, literary critic and newspaper editor, at a wedding ceremony and they were married on June 17, 1954. Three months after their marriage, they were both arrested and charged with membership in the Communist Tudeh Party, declared il ...
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