The Persian Encyclopedia
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The Persian Encyclopedia, is the one of the comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedias written in the Persian language. It is in two volumes and is based, in part, on the 1953, 1960, and 1968 editions of The Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia. It was published under the supervision of Gholamhossein Mosahab, who started the project in 1955 in Franklin Book Programs office in Tehran. But Mosahab left the project after the first volume (words starting with Alef to Seen) was published in 1966, but before the second.
The remaining volume was supervised by Reza Aghsa. It was actually published in two "parts", the first of them (Sheen to Lam) ten years after the first volume, in 1978, making the encyclopedia three physical volumes. After the Iranian revolution in 1979 and the death of Mosahab in the same year, and after the takeover of the assets of the Franklin office in Tehran by the government, things got complex, which led to the second part of the second volume being delayed again. It (Meem to Yeh) was finally published by Amirkabir in 1996, eighteen years later than the first part of the volume, but not mentioning a new supervisor's name. This brought the total number of encyclopedic pages to 3385 three-column ones. Unfortunately, the number of entries in the encyclopedia is not mentioned.
The three volumes were republished with minor changes by Amirkabir in 2002 (ISBN 964-303-044-X).