Priests Wrote First Children’s Books
TEHRAN, Oct. 31--Religious leaders and priests were the authors of the first books for children and young adults in Iran.
Expressing this view, Ali Kashefi Khansari, a researcher of literature for children and young adults, further said at a seminar on ’History of Publishing Religious Books for Children and Young Adults’ that books for children have been published in Iran ever since printing industry was established in the country with the import of machinery from abroad, said a press release by the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA).
He said that experts disagree about when the first book for children was published in Iran because childhood was defined differently in various periods of history. “For this reason, it is impossible to give an exact date when the first book for children was published in Iran.“
The seminar was held on the sidelines of ongoing festival on ’Light and Supplication’. He said that a book called ’Ali’ is widely considered to be the first religious book printed in Iran. It was published in 1937 and reprinted several times and was named after the then prime minister Ali Khan Aminoddoleh, he added.
He said that religious lessons were also incorporated in text books of modern schools particularly in Persian language books.
Kashefi said that the oldest index of books was written by Abd Al-Vahab Motamed-oddoleh who lived during the reign of the Qajar king Nasser-eddin Shah.
According to the index, a total of 338 titles of books were printed in that era except for 47 titles of books which were printed in Isfahan, Tabriz and abroad in Persian language. Some 10 percent of the books were for children and the young adults.
Expressing this view, Ali Kashefi Khansari, a researcher of literature for children and young adults, further said at a seminar on ’History of Publishing Religious Books for Children and Young Adults’ that books for children have been published in Iran ever since printing industry was established in the country with the import of machinery from abroad, said a press release by the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA).
He said that experts disagree about when the first book for children was published in Iran because childhood was defined differently in various periods of history. “For this reason, it is impossible to give an exact date when the first book for children was published in Iran.“
The seminar was held on the sidelines of ongoing festival on ’Light and Supplication’. He said that a book called ’Ali’ is widely considered to be the first religious book printed in Iran. It was published in 1937 and reprinted several times and was named after the then prime minister Ali Khan Aminoddoleh, he added.
He said that religious lessons were also incorporated in text books of modern schools particularly in Persian language books.
Kashefi said that the oldest index of books was written by Abd Al-Vahab Motamed-oddoleh who lived during the reign of the Qajar king Nasser-eddin Shah.
According to the index, a total of 338 titles of books were printed in that era except for 47 titles of books which were printed in Isfahan, Tabriz and abroad in Persian language. Some 10 percent of the books were for children and the young adults.
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