Nama-i farhangistan (magazine)

Nama-i farhangistan (Persian: نامه فرهنگستان‎; translated: Writings of the academy), was a Persian-language magazine that was published monthly in Tehran between 1943 and 1947.[1] A total of 10 issues in 5 volumes were published.[2]

Nāma-i farhangistān
CategoriesLiterature, Linguistics
FrequencyMonthly
First issue1943
Final issue1947
CountryIran
Based inTehran
LanguagePersian
WebsiteNāma-i farhangistān

Description

The magazine was the publication organ of the Academy of Iran (pers. Farhangistān-i Īrān), founded in 1935, the predecessor of the Academy for Persian Language and Literature, and thus became an important pioneer for linguistic research and language reforms in the Pahlavi era.[3]

Among the members of the Academy were well-known politicians and diplomats, numerous famous Iranian writers and scholars of that time, such as Abbas Iqbal (1896-1955), the founder of the magazine Yadgar, and Ali-Akbar Dehchoda (1879-1956), the co-founder of the magazine Sur-e Esrafil and author of the Dictionary of Dehchoda (Loghat-nāme-ye Dehchodā) - the most important and comprehensive dictionary of the Persian language and literature.[2]

The Academy, whose primary objective was to preserve and protect the Persian language, in particular used the journal for publishing Persian equivalents to replace certain foreign words.[2] From 1995 on the publication organ experienced a quarterly reprint of the same name.[4]

References
  1. "Nāma-i farhangistān". Nāma-i farhangistān. 1943–47.
  2. "FARHANGESTĀN – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  3. Abbas, Amanat (2019). Green, Nile (ed.). From Peshawar to Tehran. An Anti-imperialist Poet of the Late Persianate Milieu. The Persianate World. The Frontiers of Euroasian Lingua Franca. Oakland: University of California Press. p. 294.
  4. "DEHḴODĀ, MĪRZĀ ʿALĪ-AKBAR QAZVĪNĪ – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
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