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{{short description|1907 Persian-language political magazine}}
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'''''Nama-i Farhangistan''''' ({{langx|fa|نامه فرهنگستان|italics=yes|lit=Writings of the Academy}}), is a [[Persian language|Persian-language]] [[magazine]] that is published by the [[Academy of Persian Language and Literature]] monthly in [[Tehran]], [[Iran]]. It was first published between 1943 and 1947 and continued in 1995 to present.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1943–47|title=Nāma-i farhangistān|journal=Nāma-i farhangistān}}</ref> A total of 10 issues in 5 volumes were published.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/farhangestan|title=FARHANGESTĀN – Encyclopaedia Iranica|website=www.iranicaonline.org|access-date=9 December 2019}}</ref>
==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]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=From Peshawar to Tehran. An Anti-imperialist Poet of the Late Persianate Milieu|last=Abbas|first=Amanat|work=The Persianate World. The Frontiers of Euroasian Lingua Franca|publisher=University of California Press|year=2019|editor-last=Green|editor-first=Nile|location=Oakland|page=294}}</ref>
Among the members of the Academy were well-known politicians and diplomats, numerous famous Iranian writers and scholars of that time, such as [[Abbas Eqbal Ashtiani|Abbas Iqbal]] (1896-1955), the founder of the magazine [[Yadgar (magazine)|Yadgar]], and [[Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda|Ali-Akbar Dehchoda]] (1879–1956), the co-founder of the magazine ''[[Sur-e Esrafil (magazine)|Sur-e Esrafil]]'' and author of the ''[[Dehkhoda Dictionary|Dictionary of Dehkhoda]]'' (''Loghat-nāme-ye Dehkhodā'') – the most important and comprehensive dictionary of the [[Persian language]] and [[Persian literature|literature]].<ref name=":0" />
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.<ref name=":0"/> From 1995 on the publication organ experienced a quarterly reprint of the same name.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/dehkoda|title=DEHḴODĀ, MĪRZĀ ʿALĪ-AKBAR QAZVĪNĪ – Encyclopaedia Iranica|website=www.iranicaonline.org|access-date=9 December 2019}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* Online-Version: [https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5:1-233219 Nāma-i farhangistān]
* Digital Collections: [http://s2w.hbz-nrw.de/ulbbn/nav/classification/3085779 Arabische, persische und osmanisch-türkische Periodika]
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