The above article was published with an error in paragraph 3 of page 18. Dr William Cormick was incorrectly named Dr John Cormick. The paragraph should read as follows:
As early as 1870, Polish historian and ethnographer Alexandr Jablonowski (1829–1913) met the Bahā’īs of Baghdad and commented on the teaching of equality between women and men and the advancement in the position of women among them in Baghdad and in Iran.112 Dr William Cormick, an Irish physician who met the Bāb in Iran, echoed this perception.113 The words spoken to E.G. Browne by a simple Bahā’ī peddler are also evidence that this teaching had sunk into the consciousness of ordinary Bahā’īs and become part of their self-identity by the 1880s: “we believe that women ought to be allowed to mix more freely with men, and should not be compelled to wear the veil.”114
