Amirkabir (publisher)
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Amirkabir is a publisher based in Tehran, Iran, founded on November 19, 1949 by Abdorrahim "Taghi" Jafari. It is named after Mirza Taghi Khan Amirkabir, the famous Iranian consul.
Amirkabir's assets were seized by the Iranian government after the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and a new management organization was chosen for it. The publishing house is still active, although it only publishes either previously published material, classics, and somehow conservative new books.
Amirkabir is the current publisher of The Persian Encyclopedia.
External links
- BBC Persian, on Jafari's autobiography (http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/story/2004/07/040719_pm-pa-jafari_amirkabir.shtml)