A dedicated and indefatigable advocate of radical reforms, Behrangī is said to have been a model teacher. His antipatriarchal and anticlerical encouragement of the youth of Azerbaijan to educate themselves into equality with Persian-speaking Iranians, his passionate criticism of the wholesale adoption of American educational ideas and values, and his courageous willingness to confront the governmental power structure through his writing and teaching guarantee Behrangī a place in Iranian intellectual and social history, despite the fact that his fiction is not likely to endure for its literary merits.
