Amir Kabir Publishers ( fa, انتشارات امیرکبیر; also

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d as ''Amir-Kabir'') is a publishing house based in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

and founded on November 19, 1949, by Abdorrahim "Taghi" Jafari. It is named after Mirza Taghi Khan Amirkabir, the Iranian consul in Qajar era.

Company history

Following the

Islamic Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dyna ...

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. Amir Kabir Publishers is the publisher of ''

The Persian Encyclopedia ''The Persian Encyclopedia'' ( fa, دایرةالمعارف فارسی; Romanized as ''Dāyerat-ol-ma'āref-e Fārsi'') is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedias written in Persian. It is a ''two-volume'' encyclopedia publ ...

''. The Amir Kabir Publishers edition of

Sadegh Hedayat Sadegh Hedayat ( fa, صادق هدایت ; 17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian writer and translator. Best known for his novel '' The Blind Owl'', he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their care ...

's novel بوف کور (''

The Blind Owl ''The Blind Owl'' (1936; fa, بوف کور, ''Boof-e koor'', ) is Sadegh Hedayat's magnum opus and a major literary work of 20th century Iran. Written in Persian, it is narrated by an unnamed pen case painter, who addresses his murderous conf ...

'') was one of the titles selected for the Library of Congress 2014 "A Thousand Years of the Persian Book" exhibition. The firm regularly attends the

Tehran International Book Fair Tehran International Book Fair ( fa, نمایشگاه بین‌المللی کتاب تهران) is an annual international book fair held in Tehran, Iran. The event is held in a 120,000 square meter venue at Tehran's Grand Prayer Grounds. While ...

and overseas book fairs, including at

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

and

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

. The company's current address is 6th Floor, I&M Organization, BONYAD Building, Africa Square, Tehran.

Book series

* Etudes iraniennes (Centre iranien pour le dialogue des civilisations) * Golden Books * Shāhkārʹhā-yi adabiyāt-i Fārsī (شاهكار هاي ادبيات فارسى ؛) (English, "Masterpieces of Persian Literature") (1954- )Amir Kabir Publishers
iranicaonline.com. Retrieved 25 November 2022.

References

External links

Amir Kabir Publishers
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Encyclopædia Iranica ''Encyclopædia Iranica'' is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times. Scope The ''Encycl ...

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Jafari's autobiography
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BBC Persian BBC Persian ( fa, بی‌بی‌سی فارسی) is the Persian language broadcast station and subsidiary of BBC World Service which conveys the latest political, social, economical and sport news relevant to Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, and ...

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