Amir Kabir Publishers Explained

Amir Kabir Publishers (Persian: انتشارات امیرکبیر; Entišarat-e Amir Kabir; also romanized as Amir-Kabir or Amar-i Kabir) is a publishing house based in Tehran, Iran and founded on November 19, 1949, by Abdorrahim "Taghi" Jafari.^[1] It is named after Mirza Taghi Khan Amirkabir (better known as Amir Kabir) (1807–1852), who was chief minister during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar and is sometimes referred to as the Amirkabir Publication Institute.^[2]

Company history

Following the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the Iranian government seized Amir Kabir Publishers's assets. Subsequently, the organization's new owners imposed a new management structure. The publishing house is still active, but only publishes previously published material, classics, and conservative new books.^[3] Amir Kabir Publishers is the publisher of The Persian Encyclopedia.

The Amir Kabir Publishers edition of Sadegh Hedayat's novel Persian: بوف کور|italic=yes (The Blind Owl) was one of the titles selected for the Library of Congress 2014 "A Thousand Years of the Persian Book" exhibition.^[4]

The firm regularly attends the Tehran International Book Fair^{[5] [6]} and overseas book fairs, including at Frankfurt and Bologna.^[7]

Book series

• Études iraniennes (Centre iranien pour le dialogue des civilisations)^[8]
• Kitāb-hā-yi ṭalā'ī (Persian: کتاب‌های طلائى) (English, "Golden Books")^{[9] [10] [11]}
• Shāhkār-hā-yi adabīiyāt-i Fārsī (Persian: شاهکارهای ادبیات فارسى) (English: "Masterpieces of Persian Literature") (1954–)^[12]

External links

• Amir Kabir Publishers at Encyclopædia Iranica
• Jafari's autobiography at BBC Persian

Notes and References

1. https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/249818/Art-news-in-brief "Veteran Iranian publisher Abdorrahim Jafari dies at 96"
2. https://mehrdadsheikhan.com/works/in-search-of-illumination/ In Search of Illumination
3. Web site: From dream to reality . 2004-07-19 . 2022-04-12 . . Persian . Laden .
4. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/thousand-years-of-the-persian-book/exhibit-items.html A Thousand Years of the Persian Book
5. https://nehzat.ir/?id=937 Literati paid visit to pavilion of Amir Kabir Publishing Co. in Tehran International Book Fair
6. http://www.payvand.com/news/07/may/1146.html Tehran book fair honors best publishers of the year
7. https://financialtribune.com/articles/art-and-culture/38874/30-iran-publishers-at-bologna-book-fair 30 Iran Publishers at Bologna Book Fair
8. Daryush Shayegan, Religions et philosophies de l'Inde (Tome 1), Tehran: Amir Kabir Publishers, 1974. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
9. https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/477664/Iranian-children-s-series-Golden-Books-returns-to-stores-after "Iranian children’s series Golden Books returns to stores after 58 years"
10. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025227/http://shahrefarang.com/en/talai-book-series-2/ "Talai" Book Series
11. https://www.publishinghistory.com/kitabha-i-talai-golden-library-amir-kabir.html Kitabha-i Talai (Golden Library) (Amir Kabir) - Book Series List
12. https://iranicaonline.org/articles/amir-kabir-publishers Amir Kabir Publishers